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Although the dark-room
experiment seems to be a pure
test of the accommodation cue
alone, it is not. There is a
strong link between
accommodation and
convergence (the two eyes
working together) that even
this experiment cannot
eliminate. When one eye
changes accommodation from
near to far or from far to near,
the other eye, when occluded,
will change its direction
appropriately so that both eyes
are converged on the same
point in the scene. (If you hold
a finger lightly over the closed
eye as you change your fixation
from a near to a far object, or
vice versa, you can even feel
the closed eye turn.) To test the
efficacy of both oculomotor
cues together, observers can be
asked to view a single object in
a dark room with both eyes.
Under these conditions, when
all the information about
distance seems to derive only
from convergence and
accommodation, observers can
judge distance with a
reasonable degree of accuracy
up to about 10 feet. That the
oculomotor cues, operating
together, are indeed effective is
borne out by the fact that
constancy of size is maintained
within this distance under the
same conditions.