Figure 1
From: Characterizing amblyopic perception under non-rivalrous viewing conditions
In typical binocular vision (A) most of the visual scene is consistent between the left and right eye (B, the region of Dave the Minion’s overalls), and the statistically optimal strategy is to combine signals from the two eyes with a weighting that reflects the relative ‘efficiency’ of each eye. However in certain circumstances (e.g. partial visual occlusion by a banana) the input received by the two eyes will differ substantially over a local region of the scene (Dave’s goggles) and any weighted average of the two eyes will be perceptually nonsensical (C). In these regions of the scene the best strategy is a ‘winner-take-all’ where one eye’s input dominates.
