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Resting Focus may affect Perception of Stereogram Illusions
Name: Chambers,
Advisor: Gallagher, Shawn
Department: PSYCH
Award: Luek Endowment
Abstract: When staring into empty space, the eyes involuntarily converge on a point of “resting focus” (RF). The location of this point varies across people and my affect the ability to perceive random-dot stereogram illusions that require an observer to “relax their eyes” and converge at a point that doesn’t lie on the plane of the viewed surface. We hypothesized that the RF point would predict the nature of a stereogram illusion (“pop-in” or “pop-out”).1000 character maximum