Shared Mechanisms Drive Ocular Following and Motion Perception

Philipp Kreyenmeier, Romesh Kumbhani, J. Anthony Movshon, Miriam Spering

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Abstract

How features of complex visual patterns are combined to drive perception and eye movements is not well understood. Here we simultaneously assessed human observers’ perceptual direction estimates and ocular following responses (OFR) evoked by moving plaids made from two summed gratings with varying contrast ratios. When the gratings were of equal contrast, observers’ eye movements and perceptual reports followed the motion of the plaid pattern. However, when the contrasts were unequal, eye movements and reports during early phases of the OFR were biased toward the direction of the high-contrast grating component; during later phases, both responses followed the plaid pattern direction. The shift from component-to pattern-driven behavior resembles the shift in tuning seen under similar conditions in neuronal responses recorded from monkey MT. Moreover, for some conditions, pattern tracking and perceptual reports were correlated on a trial-by-trial basis. The OFR may therefore provide a precise behavioral readout of the dynamics of neural motion integration for complex visual patterns.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numberENEURO.0204-24.2024
JournaleNeuro
Volume11
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2024

Keywords

  • eye movements
  • ocular following
  • pattern motion
  • perception–action

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Neuroscience

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