Random-dot stereograms produced contour-displacement figural aftereffects in the absence of monocular inspection and test contours. Such aftereffects are wholly cyclopean (central), since no interaction between inspection and test contours could occur at any level lower than the area of binocular fusion. Cyclopean aftereffects have important implications for theories of figural aftereffects.
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