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01-11-2008 | Research Article

Local motion inside an object affects pointing less than smooth pursuit

Authors: Dirk Kerzel, Angélique Gauch, Blandine Ulmann

Published in: Experimental Brain Research | Issue 2/2008

Abstract

During smooth pursuit eye movements, briefly presented objects are mislocalized in the direction of motion. It has been proposed that the localization error is the sum of the pursuit signal and the retinal motion signal in a ~200 ms interval after flash onset. To evaluate contributions of retinal motion signals produced by the entire object (global motion) and elements within the object (local motion), we asked observers to reach to flashed Gabor patches (Gaussian-windowed sine-wave gratings). Global motion was manipulated by varying the duration of a stationary flash, and local motion was manipulated by varying the motion of the sine-wave. Our results confirm that global retinal motion reduces the localization error. The effect of local retinal motion on object localization was far smaller, even though local and global motion had equal effects on eye velocity. Thus, local retinal motion has differential access to manual and oculomotor control circuits. Further, we observed moderate correlations between smooth pursuit gain and localization error.

Collapsing across the 18 and 54 ms bins does not perfectly represent the different presentation times of 10 and 90 ms. However, reducing the number of bins to just one leads to a much noisier estimation of pursuit gain, given that for each trial, only a 36 ms epoch is considered. Because interval size and variability are not independent, our analysis would be compromised. Therefore, we used the same early interval in all conditions. Restricting the analysis to the data of Experiment 2 (local motion), which does not suffer from these problems, produced similar results.

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Title: Local motion inside an object affects pointing less than smooth pursuit
Authors: Dirk Kerzel
Angélique Gauch
Blandine Ulmann
Publication date: 01-11-2008
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Experimental Brain Research / Issue 2/2008
Print ISSN: 0014-4819
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-008-1514-6

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