Rod-cone interaction in monocular but not binocular pathways

Abstract

Photopic background stimulation elevates scotopic increment thresholds (rod-cone interaction) at moderate background levels when both test and concentric disk-background stimuli enter the same eye (monocular condition) but not when they enter different eyes (dichoptic condition). Only when background levels are made extremely high is there any measurable dichoptic interaction, and this interaction does not resemble that observed monocularly. Rod-cone interaction, as usually studied, is a property of monocular pathways in human vision.