Counterphase dichoptic flicker is seen as its own second harmonic.

Ophthalmic Physiol Opt

Abteilung Sinnes- und Neurophysiologie, Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie, Dortmund, Germany.

Published: April 1992

If a patternless field is modulated sinusoidally in time so that the luminance change in one eye is in counterphase to that in the other, the resulting flicker appears faster than if the modulation to both eyes has the same phase. If observers set the frequency and the amplitude of a comparison in-phase field so that it matches a neighbouring counterphase field, modulated at, say, 2.5 x its threshold, they set the frequency to twice the counterphase frequency, and the amplitude to a value that is, for a given frequency, a constant ratio of the modulation of the counterphase field. Counterphase stimulation thus appears to cause an internal second-harmonic signal. However, it is not possible to cancel this by adding a second harmonic component to the stimulus.

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