“…Moreover, these effects are also evident in the cortical potentials (VEPs) evoked by suprathreshold vernier offsets (Steinman et al, 1985). Such interference effects are ubiquitous in spatial vision and occur for orientation discrimination (Westheimer et al, 1976), stereopsis (Butler and Westheimer, 1978), Snellen acuity (Flom et al, 1963b), as well as vernier acuity (Westheimer and Hauske, 1975 and the present study). Moreover, similar effects occur when a rectangular luminous background is added to a two dot vernier target (Williams et al, 1983;Williams and Essock, 1985).…”