Disorders Affecting Depth Perception
- Ocular conditions such as amblyopia, optic nerve hypoplasia, and strabismus may reduce the perception of depth.
- Since (by definition), binocular depth perception requires two functioning eyes, a person with only one functioning eye has no binocular depth perception.
- It is typically felt that depth perception must be learned in infancy using an unconscious inference.
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