Professor Jim Enright Ph.D.

Biographical sketch

Born Baker, Oregon, 23 November 1932; undergrad (1950-56) at Caltech, UC Berkeley, UCLA; grad education, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, M.A. 1958; PhD 1961. NSF post-dococtoral fellowship, 1961-63, at Max Planck Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie, Erling-Andechs, Germany. Fulbright fellowship, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 1978-79. Alexander-von-Humboldt Prize, held at Max Planck Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany 1981-82. Faculty of University of California, 1963-present, as Professor of Behavioral Physiology.

Recent (last 8 years) publications relevant to vision (sole author unless otherwise indicated)

1. The eye, the brain and the size of the moon: toward a unified oculomotor hypothesis for the moon illusion. (1989: In "The Moon Illusion", M. Hershenson, ed., pp. 59-121, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, N. J.) 2. Manipulation of stereopsis and vergence in an outdoor setting: moon, sky and horizon (1989: Vision Research 29: 1815-1824. 3. Convergence during human vertical saccades: probable causes and perceptual consequences. (1989: Journal of Physiology-London 410: 45-65.) 4. Stereopsis, cyclotorsional "noise" and the apparent vertical. (1990: Vision Research 30: 1487-1497). 5. Exploring the third dimension with eye movements: better than stereopsis. (1991: Vision Research 31: 1549-1562.) 6. Unexpected role of the oblique muscles in the human vertical fusional reflex. (1992: Journal of Physiology- London: 451: 279-293.) 7. The remarkable saccades of asymmetrical vergence. (1992: Vision Research 32: 2261-2276.) 8. Streothresholds: simultaneity, target proximity and eye movements (1991: Vision Research 31: 2093-2100). 9. Saccade-vergence interactions? An evolutionary perspective on unbalanced saccades. (1994: pp. 117-134 in "Eye Movements in Reading", J. Ygge & G. Lennerstrand, eds., Elsevier, Oxford, New York, Tokyo.) 10. To stare or to scrutinize: "Grasping" the eye for better vision. (1994, co-authored with A. Hendriks, Vision Research 34: 2039-2042). 11. Sequential stereopsis: a simple demonstration. (1996: Vision Research 36: 307-312.) 12. Slow-velocity asymmetrical convergence: a decisive failure of "Hering's Law". (1996, Vision Research 36: 3667-3684). 13. Mach bands and airplane shadows cast on dry terrain. (1994: Applied Optics 33: 4723-4726). 14. Limitations of video-recording for estimating velocity of human eye movements. (In press, Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers) . Comment: This is probably too long a list; I consider the more important contributions to be #2, #5, #7, #11 & #12.

My primary interest is in the ways that eye movements influence perception, and the ways that perception influences eye movements. Within that framework, I have concentrated on perception of size, of direction and of distance, including stereopsis. Another major part of my research has involved studies of oculomotor performance (particularly combinations of version and vergence) without emphasis on perceptual consequences, (#6, #9, #12 above).

Jim Enright             		(619) 534-3784
Scripps Institute of Oceanography     (619) 534-7313 (fax)
UC San Diego       															jenright@ucsd.edu
La Jolla CA 92093-0202

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