Stationary Objects Flashed Periodically Appear to Move During Smooth Pursuit Eye Movement. 2017

Frédéric Gosselin, and Simon Faghel-Soubeyrand
Université de Montréal, Canada.

We discovered that a white disc flashed twice at the same location appears to move during smooth pursuit eye tracking in the direction opposite to that of the eye movement. We called this novel phenomenon movement-induced apparent motion (MIAM). Using the method of constant stimuli, we measured the required displacement of the second appearance of the disc in the pursuit direction to null the effect during the closed-loop stage of smooth pursuit eye tracking. We observed a strong linear relationship between the points of subjective stationarity and the inter-stimuli intervals for four smooth pursuit eye movement speeds. The slopes and y-intercepts of these linear fits were well predicted by the hypothesis according to which subjects saw illusory motion from the first to the second retinal projections of the flashed disc during smooth pursuit eye movement, with no extra-retinal signal compensation.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D009039 Motion Perception The real or apparent movement of objects through the visual field. Movement Perception,Perception, Motion,Perception, Movement
D011698 Pursuit, Smooth Eye movements that are slow, continuous, and conjugate and occur when a fixed object is moved slowly. Pursuits, Smooth,Smooth Pursuit,Smooth Pursuits
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D053483 Eye Movement Measurements Methods and procedures for recording EYE MOVEMENTS. Eye Movement Measurement,Measurement, Eye Movement,Measurements, Eye Movement
D055815 Young Adult A person between 19 and 24 years of age. Adult, Young,Adults, Young,Young Adults
D057849 Optic Flow The continuous visual field seen by a subject through space and time. Optical Flow,Flow, Optic,Flow, Optical,Optic Flows,Optical Flows

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