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ACCOMMODATION
One potential source of
information is not eliminated
in our dark-room experiment.
The lens of the eye reflexively
changes its thickness in order
to achieve sharp focus for
objects at differing distances.
Logically, if the brain "knew"
about the state of
accommodation of the lens, it
could use such information as a
clue to the object's distance. It
could also gain information
from the fact that objects
farther or nearer than the
object focused on will yield
blurred images, the more so the
farther away they are from the
plane upon which the eyes are
focused. Accommodation and
convergence are often termed
oculomotor cues because they
depend on movements of (or
within) the eye.
Accommodation, as we
shall see, is considered to be a
weak source of information
about depth. Therefore, it was
not deemed necessary to
eliminate it in our experiment.
We could have eliminated this
cue as well by simply viewing
the object through a pinhole, or
artificial pupil. The reason why
a pinhole eliminates
accommodation as a distance
clue is easy to grasp. The
pinhole allows only a single ray
of light (or a very narrow beam)
to reach the eye from any point
in space. Thus a lens is not
needed to focus the light. A
sharp picture of a scene would
be produced regardless of the
distance of the objects in it.