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Compared with this cell, the
cells whose responses are
shown in the illustration here
and next are very fussy about
the relative positions of the two
stimuli and therefore about
depth. The first cell (to the left)
fires best if the stimuli to the
two eyes fall on exactly
corresponding parts of the two
retinas. The amount of
horizontal malpositioning, or
disparity, that can be tolerated
before the response disappears
is a fraction of the width of the
receptive field. It therefore
fires if and only if the object is
roughly as far away as the
distance on which the eyes are
fixed.
For this "tuned excitatory"
cell, it makes a lot of difference
whether the stimulus is at the
distance the animal is looking,
or is nearer or farther away.
The cell fires only if the slit is
roughly at the distance the
animal is looking. In these
experiments, the direction of
gaze of one eye is varied
horizontally with a prism, but
bodily moving the screen
nearer or farther away would
amount to the same thing.