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Effects of contrast on smooth pursuit eye movements.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Spering, Miriam Kerzel, Dirk Braun, Doris I. Hawken, Michael J. Gegenfurtner, Karl R. |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | It is well known that moving stimuli can appear to move more slowly when contrast is reduced (P. Thompson, 1982). Here we address the question whether changes in stimulus contrast also affect smooth pursuit eye movements. Subjects were asked to smoothly track a moving Gabor patch. Targets varied in velocity (1, 8, and 15 deg/s), spatial frequency (0.1, 1, 4, and 8 c/deg), and contrast, ranging from just below individual thresholds to maximum contrast. Results show that smooth pursuit eye velocity gain rose significantly with increasing contrast. Below a contrast level of two to three times threshold, pursuit gain, acceleration, latency, and positional accuracy were severely impaired. Therefore, the smooth pursuit motor response shows the same kind of slowing at low contrast that was demonstrated in previous studies on perception. |
| Starting Page | 68 |
| Ending Page | 70 |
| Page Count | 3 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.unige.ch/fapse/PSY/persons/kerzel/reprints/JOV.2005.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/miriam/publications/Spering.Etal.JOV.2005.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~mjh/papers_pdf/Spering_jov_5_455_05.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.visualcognition.ca/spering/publications/SperingEtal.JOV.2005.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.psych.nyu.edu/carrascolab/people/SperingEtal.JOV.2005.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 16097876v1 |
| Volume Number | 5 |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of vision |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Degree Unit of Plane Angle Eye Movements Hearing Loss, High-Frequency Movement Myocytes, Smooth Muscle Pursuit, Smooth |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |