Regularization in Oculomotor Adaptation

The oculomotor system remains plastic so that it can maintain clear single binocular vision during development and also in novel visual conditions (such as wearing new spectacles). It is important to understand this adaptation process so that we can predict in advance potential problems that might arise with new optical devices such as virtual reality head mounted displays. In this paper we present neural network models of adaptation to vertical disparities at different points in the visual field and argue that regularization (weight decay) provides a more realistic account of the empirical data than other approaches