Relations between individual differences in oculomotor resting states and visual inspection performance
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ergonomics
- Vol. 39 (1), 35-40
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139608964431
Abstract
Individual differences in the oculomotor resting states (dark vergence and dark focus) have previously been linked to subjective and visual consequences of near visual work. The present experiment investigated whether these resting states are related also to performance on a near visual inspection task. Dark vergence and dark focus were measured in 38 students before and after they spent 40 nun searching for a target letter among distractor letters on a video display terminal at a distance of 20 cm. Subjects with relatively near dark vergence positions performed the inspection task significantly more quickly than subjects with relatively far dark vergence positions. Also, subjects who showed a relatively large inward shift in dark vergence tended to perform quickly. Inspection performance was not related to individual differences in dark focus. These results extend existing oculomotor theory and suggest that the performance of visual inspectors is maximized when the mismatch between the task distance and their dark vergence posture is minimized.Keywords
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