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CLEAR evidence that the human retina stretches during accommodation was presented by Moses1, but his measurements were all made at the anterior margin of the retina, so they did not show how this stretch is spatially distributed. If it is largely confined to the region of the ora serrata, its contribution to the perceptual correlates of accommodation will be much less than if the central retina is distorted as well. A perceptual effect involving accommodation-dependent distortions in the visual field has recently been attributed by its discoverers2 to such a stretching of the central retina, although non-retinal explanations for this effect are also tenable.
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HOLLINS, M. Does the central human retina stretch during accommodation?. Nature 251, 729–730 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/251729a0
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