CONVERGENCE AS A CUE FOR DISTANCE

Binocular eye movements were measured in subjects experiencing the wallpaper illusion. It was found that a physical displacement of the fixation point by more than 1 m out of the plane of apparent localisation of the strips had no influence on the illusory location of these strips. Hence, illusory localisation in the wallpaper illusion is independent of the actual magnitude of the subject's convergence angle, once the illusion has come into existence. This result suggests that convergence does not serve as a source of information about apparent distance, at least in the wallpaper illusion.