• Question: Like you are right handed or left handed are you right eyed or left eyed

    Asked by to Andrew, Emma, Michael, Nancy on 25 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Nancy Carlisle

      Nancy Carlisle answered on 25 Jun 2014:

      When we see, we incorporate vision from both eyes together in order to create one unified perception (what we see of the world). Lots of the time, when you mix together the information from both eyes, a person has a bias to use the information from one eye rather than the other (called their ‘dominant eye’). You can tell whether someone is ‘right eye dominant’ or ‘left eye dominant’ by putting images in front of each eye, and then having them close one eye or the other. If they close one eye, and the image moves, that means that they were relying on the other image (and that eye is dominant). It’s tricky to get the images right in front of each eye though- so I’ve only seen this done in a laboratory that studies visual perception!

    • Photo: Michael Kelly

      Michael Kelly answered on 25 Jun 2014:

      Another way of finding out which is the dominant eye is to ask someone to point at an object then close one eye, if the object seems to jump the the other eye is probably the dominant one. Its doesn’t work all the time and if the person knows why your’e doing it that doesn’t help either.

    • Photo: Emma Reid

      Emma Reid answered on 25 Jun 2014:

      Hi there!
      Nancy and Michael are right, one eye is dominant over the other and in most people it’s usually the right eye. There’s no link between eye dominance and handedness though, so you can be left handed and right eye dominant and vice versa. 🙂
      Emma

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