Spatiotopic updating facilitates perception immediately after saccades.

ABSTRACT: As the neural representation of visual information is initially coded in retinotopic coordinates, eye movements (saccades) pose a major problem for visual stability. If no visual information were maintained across saccades, retinotopic representations would have to be rebuilt after each saccade. It is currently strongly debated what kind of information (if any at all) is accumulated across saccades, and when this information becomes available after a saccade. Here, we use a motion illusion to examine the accumulation of visual information across saccades. In this illusion, an annulus with a random texture slowly rotates, and is then replaced with a second texture (motion transient). With increasing rotation durations, observers consistently perceive the transient as large rotational jumps

SUBMITTER: Fabius JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5043283 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature