Effects of visual imagery on the accommodation response

Abstract

Twenty-seven naive male subjects were tested to determine whether they could effect appropriate accommodation changes in an empty field by "thinking near" and "thinking far." Evidence indicated that naive subjects could effect significant and appropriate accommodation changes, but only about a steady-state value of 1.0 diopter. Additionally, the data support the hypothesis that the resting state of accommodation is not at the visual far point, but, rather, at about 1.0 diopter. © 1976 Psychonomic Society, Inc.