Harwerth R S
Am J Optom Physiol Opt. 1982 Jul;59(7):535-55.
Many of the current concepts on the mechanisms of binocular vision and amblyopia have been developed from physiological studies on animals. It is important to compare psychophysical data from these species with human data in order to provide a more direct link between the physiology and behavior of humans. This paper describes behavioral experiments on rhesus monkeys with normal binocular vision and monkeys with experimental amblyopia. The visual functions investigated were stereopsis, fusional vergence ranges, spatial contrast sensitivity, and increment-threshold spectral sensitivity. The comparison of data from human observers with those of the monkeys shows remarkable agreement. The monkey is useful as a surrogate for experiments that are either impossible or impractical to conduct on humans, and the data may be applied to the human population.
目前许多关于双眼视觉和弱视机制的概念都是从对动物的生理学研究中发展而来的。将这些物种的心理物理学数据与人类数据进行比较很重要，以便在人类的生理学和行为之间建立更直接的联系。本文描述了对具有正常双眼视觉的恒河猴和实验性弱视猴进行的行为实验。所研究的视觉功能包括立体视觉、融合性聚散范围、空间对比敏感度和增量阈值光谱敏感度。人类观察者的数据与猴子的数据比较显示出显著的一致性。猴子可用作在人类身上进行不可能或不切实际的实验的替代物，并且这些数据可应用于人类群体。
