Giacomo Pennella

Short-term monocular deprivation in healthy humans: a meta-analysis and new perspectives.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences December 17, 2025 Cecilia Steinwurzel, Giacomo Pennella, Paola Binda

Starting from the early 2010s, several studies have shown that a short period of monocular deprivation in adult volunteers transiently shifts ocular dominance in favour of the deprived eye. We compiled a meta-analysis of 73 such studies and found that the shift of ocular dominance was reliably observed, although with variable effect sizes mainly associated with the duration of deprivation and...