Oculomotor Remapping of Visual Information to Foveal Retinotopic Cortex.

ABSTRACT: Our eyes continually jump around the visual scene to bring the high-resolution, central part of our vision onto objects of interest. We are oblivious to these abrupt shifts, perceiving the visual world to appear reassuringly stable. A process called remapping has been proposed to mediate this perceptual stability for attended objects by shifting their retinotopic representation to compensate for the effects of the upcoming eye movement. In everyday vision, observers make goal-directed eye movements towards items of interest bringing them to the fovea and, for these items, the remapped activity should impinge on foveal regions of the retinotopic maps in visual cortex. Previous research has focused instead on remapping for targets that were not saccade goals, where activity is remapped to a

SUBMITTER: Knapen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4915294 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature