wentieth century however, there has been escalation in the amount of interest paid to MAE’s. This may well be due to extensive advancements made in neuroscience which subsequently opened many doors to other areas of research; one being that of the visual cortex (Mather et al, 1998).Contemporary theory regarding MAE stipulate either of three types of test stimulus, The neutral test method is either a motionless or energetic with no preference to direction. The null test method is an energetic test with a preference for directional bias in order to null the MAE. The transfer method, although regarded as similar to the first two methods, is different due to the way it compares measurements of MAE’s between different adaptation and test stimuli.The current study design looks at the difference in MAE magnitudes between monocular (MON) and interocular transfer (IOT) viewing conditions. It is suggested (Wade, 1991) that IOT MAE’s are of a lesser magnitude than monocular MAE’s. At the same time it is impressive that IOT allows an MAE. Blake et al (1981) give evidence to suggest that neurons in the visual cortex are all connected and benefit from stimuli whether adapted to it or not. Although complete IOT is said to be hypothetical, their evidence suggests that “two eyes constitute a single visual channel” (Blake et al, 1981). This is in line with the cyclopean theory (Wade et al, 1991). MethodDesignThis study used a 2x2 within subjects factorial design. The factor Viewing Condition has two levels (Monocular and interocular transfer) of testing with which the factor Eye adapted (having two levels, dominant and non-dominant eye) is tested. The dependent variable is the comparison of performance between the dominant and non-dominant eye testing and how long the after-effect lasts. The hypothesis was that there will be a monocular viewing will produce a higher magnitude (seconds) than interocular transf...
