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These improvements took several years and the first 2-D work with the completed instrument was published in 1988 2 • The rest of our data collection for the Optical Society Symposium was done in Rotterdam where Collewijn had just completed the new cube-surface field coil, 1D phase-detecting system illustrated in Fig. 15. This was a large set-up, designed specifically for human beings, who could now sit in a comfortable chair near the center of the field coils rather than straddle a narrow wooden beam at the center of the much smaller rabbit apparatus.
Their averaged CSFs (geometrical means) are shown as lines connecting data points in Fig. 1. 14(D). Here the average crossovers occur at 10 cycles/degree and the high spatial frequency cut-offs are all at or slightly above 40 cycles/degree. The solid lines plotted in Fig. 14(D) are taken from Kelly's (1979a, 1979b) "spatio-temporal surface model" of the effects of motion on contrast. There are some striking differences between predictions from his model, which was developed on the basis of psychophysical measurements of CSFs obtained after imposing constant velocity motion on a "stabilized" sinusoidal grating, and our results where motion was generated by natural failures of oculomotor compensation during head movement.
Quinn had been chosen to make one of those unlikely phone calls. Suddenly, it came to me. I realized that I could make binocular recordings easily in the Netherlands with Collewijn's technique and said goodbye to Dr. Gerald, assuring him that I would come up with something by October. That's how Collewijn and I got into the human binocular eye movement business. We were assigned the task - no questions asked. How we began to do this is shown in Fig. 10. Fig. 10(A) shows the author (tan after a week in Sarasota) looking off into the distance with something taped to his forehead and a suggestion that he may be wearing something on his eyes.