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Three minutes later, the lead doubled. Off a face-off in the Dartmouth end, sophomore Jennifer Sifers corralled the puck behind the net and sent a seeing-eye centering pass across the crease...
People who cannot do so are stereoblind, a state that is apparent when light reflects in different places in each of a person’s eyes. Photographs of the famous baseball player reveal this syndrome; his left eye wandered slightly from the center. The repression of depth perception in the “wall eye” leads a person to develop “hyperacuity” in the other so that “Babe’s stereoblindness may have been an asset,” Livingstone said...
...Louvre a few years ago, Livingstone said, she serendipitously stumbled across another stereoblind talent, Harmenszoon van Rijn Rembrandt, whose famous self-portraits plainly depicts a lazy left eye...
...wouldn’t normally want to base stereoblindness on paintings,” she said. “But all four self-portraits in the Louvre gallery included a ‘walled left eye...
Livingstone and her colleague Bevil Conway, who happens to be a stereoblind painter, found later that Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings—which are mirror images of the original—portray an averted right eye. Armed with ample evidence, Livingstone and Conway concluded that Rembrandt was indeed stereoblind, a syndrome that may have helped him produce three-dimensional paintings...