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Adaptation model of accommodation and vergence
Author(s) -
Hung George K.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
ophthalmic and physiological optics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.147
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1475-1313
pISSN - 0275-5408
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-1313.1992.tb00404.x
Subject(s) - accommodation , monocular , tonic (physiology) , control theory (sociology) , computer science , adaptation (eye) , stimulus (psychology) , optics , computer vision , psychology , artificial intelligence , physics , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , control (management)
Both accommodation and vergence have been shown to exhibit adaptation after extended near viewing. Normally, when the stimulus to accommodation is removed, the accommodation system returns rapidly towards its ionic position. However, if the stimulus is removed after an extended focusing effort, the decay is much slower. A similar effect can be observed in the vergence system. After prolonged wearing of horizontal prisms, blockage of one eye results in a much slower decay of the vergence output towards its tonic value. No previous models have been shown to simulate quantitatively these effects. An interactive dual‐feedback model of accommodation and vergence was developed to simulate the adaptive behaviour found experimentally. The unique feature of the model is that the output of each controller drives a dynamic adaptive component whose output governs the time constant of the controller. The model was able to simulate the rapid and slow decays following short and long viewing intervals m each of the accommodative and vergence systems. It also simulated adaptation during alternate binocular and monocular viewing under the accommodation closed‐loop condition. Thus, this model can serve as the basis for detailed quantitative evaluation of adaptive behaviour in the accommodation and vergence systems.