Abstract
Due to their different positions, the two eyes in general receive slightly different images of the world. Differences between left and right images are termed binocular disparities and the human visual system, as well as those of many other species, can detect and use these disparities to recover information about the three-dimensional structure of the scene being viewed. Stereopsis is the term used to describe the perception of depth from binocular disparities.
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Frisby, J.P. (1988). Stereopsis, Binocular Perception. In: Sensory System I. Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6647-6_28
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