scholarly journals Scaling of anticipatory smooth pursuit eye movements with target speed probability

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 665-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Souto ◽  
A. Montagnini ◽  
G. S. Masson
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Smooth Pursuit ◽  
Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements ◽  
Target Speed ◽  
Pursuit Eye Movements

scholarly journals Different mechanisms for modulation of the initiation and steady-state of smooth pursuit eye movements

2020 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 1265-1276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Behling ◽  
Stephen G. Lisberger
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Eye Movements ◽  
Smooth Pursuit ◽  
Visual Motion ◽  
Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements ◽  
Target Speed ◽  
Pursuit Eye Movements ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
State Tracking ◽  
Eye Velocity

Smooth pursuit eye movements are used by primates to track moving objects. They are initiated by sensory estimates of target speed represented in the middle temporal (MT) area of extrastriate visual cortex and then supported by motor feedback to maintain steady-state eye speed at target speed. Here, we show that reducing the coherence in a patch of dots for a tracking target degrades the eye speed both at the initiation of pursuit and during steady-state tracking, when eye speed reaches an asymptote well below target speed. The deficits are quantitatively different between the motor-supported steady-state of pursuit and the sensory-driven initiation of pursuit, suggesting separate mechanisms. The deficit in visually guided pursuit initiation could not explain the deficit in steady-state tracking. Pulses of target speed during steady-state tracking revealed lower sensitivities to image motion across the retina for lower values of dot coherence. However, sensitivity was not zero, implying that visual motion should still be driving eye velocity toward target velocity. When we changed dot coherence from 100% to lower values during accurate steady-state pursuit, we observed larger eye decelerations for lower coherences, as expected if motor feedback was reduced in gain. A simple pursuit model accounts for our data based on separate modulation of the strength of visual-motor transmission and motor feedback. We suggest that reduced dot coherence allows us to observe evidence for separate modulations of the gain of visual-motor transmission during pursuit initiation and of the motor corollary discharges that comprise eye velocity memory and support steady-state tracking. NEW & NOTEWORTHY We exploit low-coherence patches of dots to control the initiation and steady state of smooth pursuit eye movements and show that these two phases of movement are modulated separately by the reliability of visual motion signals. We conclude that the neural circuit for pursuit includes separate modulation of the strength of visual-motor transmission for movement initiation and of eye velocity positive feedback to support steady-state tracking.

scholarly journals Different mechanisms for modulation of the initiation and steady-state of smooth pursuit eye movements

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Behling ◽  
Stephen G. Lisberger
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Eye Movements ◽  
Smooth Pursuit ◽  
Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements ◽  
Target Speed ◽  
Pursuit Eye Movements ◽  
Pursuit Initiation ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
State Tracking ◽  
Eye Velocity

AbstractSmooth pursuit eye movements are used by primates to track moving objects. They are initiated by sensory estimates of target speed represented in the middle temporal (MT) area of extrastriate visual cortex and then supported by motor feedback to maintain steady-state eye speed at target speed. Here, we show that reducing the coherence in a patch of dots for a tracking target degrades the eye speed both at the initiation of pursuit and during steady-state tracking, when eye speed reaches an asymptote well below target speed. The deficits are quantitatively different between the motor-supported steady-state of pursuit and the sensory-driven initiation of pursuit, suggesting separate mechanisms. The deficit in visually-guided pursuit initiation could not explain the deficit in steady-state tracking. Pulses of target speed during steady-state tracking revealed lower sensitivities to image motion across the retina for lower values of dot coherence. However, sensitivity was not zero, implying that visual motion should still be driving eye velocity towards target velocity. When we changed dot coherence from 100% to lower values during accurate steady-state pursuit, we observed larger eye decelerations for lower coherences, as expected if motor feedback was reduced in gain. A simple pursuit model accounts for our data based on separate modulation of the strength of visual-motor transmission and motor feedback. We suggest that reduced dot coherence creates less reliable target motion that impacts pursuit initiation by changing the gain of visual-motor transmission and perturbs steady-state tracking by modulation of the motor corollary discharges that comprise eye velocity memory.

scholarly journals Gain Control in Human Smooth-Pursuit Eye Movements

2002 ◽  
Vol 87 (6) ◽  
pp. 2936-2945 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne K. Churchland ◽  
Stephen G. Lisberger
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Smooth Pursuit ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Sine Wave ◽  
Target Motion ◽  
Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements ◽  
Target Speed ◽  
Pursuit Eye Movements ◽  
On Line ◽  
Visual Motor

In previous experiments, on-line modulation of the gain of visual-motor transmission for pursuit eye movements was demonstrated in monkeys by showing that the response to a brief perturbation of target motion was strongly enhanced during pursuit relative to during fixation. The present paper elaborates the properties of on-line gain control by recording the smooth-pursuit eye movements of human subjects during tracking of a spot target. When perturbations consisted of one cycle of a 5-Hz sine wave, responses were significantly larger during pursuit than during fixation. Furthermore, responses grew as a function of eye/target velocity at the time of the perturbation and of perturbation amplitude. Thus human pursuit, like monkey pursuit, is modulated by on-line gain control. For larger perturbations consisting of a single sine wave at 2.8 Hz, ±19°/s, the degree of enhancement depended strongly on the phase of the perturbation. Enhancement was present when “peak-first” perturbations caused the target speed to increase first and was attenuated when “peak-last” perturbations caused target speed to decrease first. This effect was most profound when the perturbation was 2.8 Hz, ±19°/s but was also present when the amplitude of the peak-last perturbation was ±5o/s. For peak-last perturbations, the eye velocity evoked by the later peak of the perturbation was inversely related to that evoked by the preceding trough of the perturbation. We interpret these effects of perturbation phase as evidence that peak-last perturbations cause a decrease in the on-line gain of visual-motor transmission for pursuit. We conclude that gain control is modulated dynamically as behavioral conditions change. Finally, when perturbations were presented as a sequence of three large, peak-last sine waves starting at the onset of target motion at 10°/s, repeating the conditions used in prior studies on humans, we were able to replicate the prior finding that the response to the perturbations was equal during pursuit and fixation. We conclude that on-line gain control modulates human pursuit and that it can be probed most reliably with small, brief perturbations that do not affect the on-line gain themselves.

scholarly journals The Impact of Neonatal Morbidities on Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements in Very Preterm Infants

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 352-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Strand Brodd ◽  
K Rosander ◽  
H Grönqvist ◽  
G Holmström ◽  
B Strömberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Preterm Infants ◽  
Smooth Pursuit ◽  
Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements ◽  
Very Preterm Infants ◽  
Very Preterm ◽  
Pursuit Eye Movements ◽  
The Impact

Schizotypy and smooth pursuit eye movements as potential endophenotypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder

2018 ◽  
Vol 269 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Bey ◽  
Inga Meyhöfer ◽  
Leonhard Lennertz ◽  
Rosa Grützmann ◽  
Stephan Heinzel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Smooth Pursuit ◽  
Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Pursuit Eye Movements

Effect of amphetamine on saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements

1983 ◽  
Vol 79 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 190-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Tedeschi ◽  
P. R. M. Bittencourt ◽  
A. T. Smith ◽  
A. Richens
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Smooth Pursuit ◽  
Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements ◽  
Pursuit Eye Movements

Smooth-pursuit eye movements, and diazepam, CPZ, and secobarbital

1975 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip S. Holzman ◽  
Deborah L. Levy ◽  
Eberhard H. Uhlenhuth ◽  
Leonard R. Proctor ◽  
Daniel X. Freedman
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Smooth Pursuit ◽  
Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements ◽  
Pursuit Eye Movements
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