Associations Between Binocular Depth Perception and Performance Gains in Laparoscopic Skill Acquisition
The ability to perceive differences in depth is important in many daily life situations. It is also of relevance in laparoscopic surgical procedures that require the extrapolation of three-dimensional visual information from two-dimensional planar images. Besides visual-motor coordination, laparosco...
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| author | Adamantini Hatzipanayioti Adamantini Hatzipanayioti Sebastian Bodenstedt Sebastian Bodenstedt Felix von Bechtolsheim Felix von Bechtolsheim Isabel Funke Isabel Funke Florian Oehme Marius Distler Marius Distler Jürgen Weitz Jürgen Weitz Stefanie Speidel Stefanie Speidel Shu-Chen Li Shu-Chen Li |
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| description | The ability to perceive differences in depth is important in many daily life situations. It is also of relevance in laparoscopic surgical procedures that require the extrapolation of three-dimensional visual information from two-dimensional planar images. Besides visual-motor coordination, laparoscopic skills and binocular depth perception are demanding visual tasks for which learning is important. This study explored potential relations between binocular depth perception and individual variations in performance gains during laparoscopic skill acquisition in medical students naïve of such procedures. Individual differences in perceptual learning of binocular depth discrimination when performing a random dot stereogram (RDS) task were measured as variations in the slope changes of the logistic disparity psychometric curves from the first to the last blocks of the experiment. The results showed that not only did the individuals differ in their depth discrimination; the extent with which this performance changed across blocks also differed substantially between individuals. Of note, individual differences in perceptual learning of depth discrimination are associated with performance gains from laparoscopic skill training, both with respect to movement speed and an efficiency score that considered both speed and precision. These results indicate that learning-related benefits for enhancing demanding visual processes are, in part, shared between these two tasks. Future studies that include a broader selection of task-varying monocular and binocular cues as well as visual-motor coordination are needed to further investigate potential mechanistic relations between depth perceptual learning and laparoscopic skill acquisition. A deeper understanding of these mechanisms would be important for applied research that aims at designing behavioral interventions for enhancing technology-assisted laparoscopic skills. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0905671caaa54f9186021fed73d289d72022-12-21T18:32:49ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience1662-51612021-10-011510.3389/fnhum.2021.675700675700Associations Between Binocular Depth Perception and Performance Gains in Laparoscopic Skill AcquisitionAdamantini Hatzipanayioti0Adamantini Hatzipanayioti1Sebastian Bodenstedt2Sebastian Bodenstedt3Felix von Bechtolsheim4Felix von Bechtolsheim5Isabel Funke6Isabel Funke7Florian Oehme8Marius Distler9Marius Distler10Jürgen Weitz11Jürgen Weitz12Stefanie Speidel13Stefanie Speidel14Shu-Chen Li15Shu-Chen Li16Centre for Tactile Internet With Human-in-the-Loop, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyLifespan Developmental Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyCentre for Tactile Internet With Human-in-the-Loop, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyDivision of Translational Surgical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases Partner Site Dresden, Dresden, GermanyCentre for Tactile Internet With Human-in-the-Loop, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyDepartment of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyCentre for Tactile Internet With Human-in-the-Loop, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyDivision of Translational Surgical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases Partner Site Dresden, Dresden, GermanyDepartment of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyCentre for Tactile Internet With Human-in-the-Loop, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyDepartment of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyCentre for Tactile Internet With Human-in-the-Loop, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyDepartment of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyCentre for Tactile Internet With Human-in-the-Loop, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyDivision of Translational Surgical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases Partner Site Dresden, Dresden, GermanyCentre for Tactile Internet With Human-in-the-Loop, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyLifespan Developmental Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyThe ability to perceive differences in depth is important in many daily life situations. It is also of relevance in laparoscopic surgical procedures that require the extrapolation of three-dimensional visual information from two-dimensional planar images. Besides visual-motor coordination, laparoscopic skills and binocular depth perception are demanding visual tasks for which learning is important. This study explored potential relations between binocular depth perception and individual variations in performance gains during laparoscopic skill acquisition in medical students naïve of such procedures. Individual differences in perceptual learning of binocular depth discrimination when performing a random dot stereogram (RDS) task were measured as variations in the slope changes of the logistic disparity psychometric curves from the first to the last blocks of the experiment. The results showed that not only did the individuals differ in their depth discrimination; the extent with which this performance changed across blocks also differed substantially between individuals. Of note, individual differences in perceptual learning of depth discrimination are associated with performance gains from laparoscopic skill training, both with respect to movement speed and an efficiency score that considered both speed and precision. These results indicate that learning-related benefits for enhancing demanding visual processes are, in part, shared between these two tasks. Future studies that include a broader selection of task-varying monocular and binocular cues as well as visual-motor coordination are needed to further investigate potential mechanistic relations between depth perceptual learning and laparoscopic skill acquisition. A deeper understanding of these mechanisms would be important for applied research that aims at designing behavioral interventions for enhancing technology-assisted laparoscopic skills.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.675700/fulldepth perceptionrandom-dot stereogramslaparoscopic trainingskill acquisitionpsychometric curve |
| spellingShingle | Adamantini Hatzipanayioti Adamantini Hatzipanayioti Sebastian Bodenstedt Sebastian Bodenstedt Felix von Bechtolsheim Felix von Bechtolsheim Isabel Funke Isabel Funke Florian Oehme Marius Distler Marius Distler Jürgen Weitz Jürgen Weitz Stefanie Speidel Stefanie Speidel Shu-Chen Li Shu-Chen Li Associations Between Binocular Depth Perception and Performance Gains in Laparoscopic Skill Acquisition Frontiers in Human Neuroscience depth perception random-dot stereograms laparoscopic training skill acquisition psychometric curve |
| title | Associations Between Binocular Depth Perception and Performance Gains in Laparoscopic Skill Acquisition |
| title_full | Associations Between Binocular Depth Perception and Performance Gains in Laparoscopic Skill Acquisition |
| title_fullStr | Associations Between Binocular Depth Perception and Performance Gains in Laparoscopic Skill Acquisition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Associations Between Binocular Depth Perception and Performance Gains in Laparoscopic Skill Acquisition |
| title_short | Associations Between Binocular Depth Perception and Performance Gains in Laparoscopic Skill Acquisition |
| title_sort | associations between binocular depth perception and performance gains in laparoscopic skill acquisition |
| topic | depth perception random-dot stereograms laparoscopic training skill acquisition psychometric curve |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.675700/full |
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