Object recognition during foveating eye movements

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• 作者：Alex ; er C. Schü ; tz ; Doris I. Braun ; Karl R. Gegenfurtner
• 关键词：Smooth pursuit eye movements ; Saccadic eye movements ; Object recognition ; Visual perception ; Perception and action
• 刊名：Vision Research
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：9 September 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：49
• 期：18
• 页码：2241-2253
• 全文大小：892 K

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We studied how saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements affect the recognition of briefly presented letters appearing within the eye movement target. First we compared the recognition performance during steady-state pursuit and during fixation. Single letters were presented for seven different durations ranging from 10 to 400 ms and four contrast levels ranging from 5 % to 40 % . For both types of eye movements the recognition rates increased with duration and contrast, but they were on average 11 % lower during pursuit. In daily life humans use a combination of saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements to foveate a peripheral moving object. To investigate this more natural situation, we presented a peripheral target that was either stationary or moving horizontally, above or below the fixation spot. Participants were asked to saccade to the target and to keep it foveated. The letters were presented at different times relative to the first target directed saccade. As would be expected from retinal masking and motion blur during saccades, the discrimination performance increased with increasing post-saccadic delay. If the target moved and the saccade was followed by pursuit, letter recognition performance was on average 16 % lower than if the target was stationary and the saccade was followed by fixation.