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The extraretinal signal from the pursuit-eye-movement system: Its role in the perceptual and the egocentric localization systems

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The accuracy of perceptual judgment of the distance of a moving target tracked at various velocities by pursuit eye movements was examined in relation to the amount of two types of eye movement (smooth pursuit eye movement and compensatory saccade) involved in eye tracking. The perceptually judged distance became shorter as the amount of pursuit-eye-movement component in eye tracking increased. A detailed analysis of the eye-movement data and the size of perceptual underestimation indicated that the underestimation was mainly caused by inaccurate extraretinal information derived from the pursuit-eye-movement system, which underestimated the distance at a constant ratio, irrespective of the velocity of tracking. Egocentric localization was not affected by the mode of eye movements, indicating that the egocentric localization system functions without interference from the inaccurate information from the pursuit-eye-movement system.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University, 950-21, Dcarashi, Niigata, Japan

    Hitoshi Honda

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This research was supported by a 1985 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (59510052) from the Japanese Ministry of Educauon, Science, and Culture to the author.

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Honda, H. The extraretinal signal from the pursuit-eye-movement system: Its role in the perceptual and the egocentric localization systems. Perception & Psychophysics 48, 509–515 (1990). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03211595

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Keywords

  • Perceptual Judgment
  • Target Displacement
  • Retinal Signal
  • Extraretinal Signal
  • Egocentric Localization