1998/04/01 by Nicholas Wade · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Neuroscience · Medicine · #Historical Geography and Cartography #Literary, Cultural, Historical Analysis #Ocular dominance #Binocular rivalry #Dominance (genetics) #Rivalry #Binocular vision #Psychology #Context (archaeology) #Optometry #Cognitive psychology #Visual perception #Artificial intelligence #Geography #Computer science #Biology #Neuroscience #Medicine #Perception #Economics #Visual cortex
paper · doi:10.1080/713754296
openalex publication_date 1998/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Early accounts of eye dominances are considered. An index of sighting dominance (eye closure) was described by Aristotle, and Porta (1593) introduced an alignment test for it. Porta also described rivalry dominance, and asserted that it favoured the right eye. Acuity dominance, on the other hand, was assigned to the left eye by Borelli (1673). These views are placed in the context of prevailing theories of binocular vision.