The temporal and spatial limits of compensation for fixational eye movements

Wallis, G

doi:10.1016/j.visres.2006.01.037

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The temporal and spatial limits of compensation for fixational eye movements

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Wallis, G
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Wallis, G. (2006). The temporal and spatial limits of compensation for fixational eye movements. Vision Research, 46(18), 2848-2858. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2006.01.037.

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High-fidelity eye tracking is combined with a perceptual grouping task to provide insight into the likely mechanisms underlying the compensation of retinal image motion caused by movement of the eyes. The experiments describe the covert detection of minute temporal and spatial offsets incorporated into a test stimulus. Analysis of eye motion on individual trials indicates that the temporal offset sensitivity is actually due to motion of the eye inducing artificial spatial offsets in the briefly presented stimuli. The results have strong implications for two popular models of compensation for fixational eye movements, namely efference copy and image-based models. If an efference copy model is assumed, the results place constraints on the spatial accuracy and source of compensation. If an image-based model is assumed then limitations are placed on the integration time window over which motion estimates are calculated.