5. Laterality - types, ontogenesis of laterality

5.2. Laterality of the eye

Segregation of Visual Field Information at the Optic Chiasm


https://cnx.org/contents/KcreJ7oj@13/Central-Processing


Three types of eye dominance:

  • sensory - preference of one eye in monocular vision - aiming eye, detected by monocular
  • oculomotor - in binocular vision shows better fixation in one eye
  • directional - the most used type of eye dominance, ensures directionality in binocular vision, the eye is dominant, focusing on a specific object - the controlling eye