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L Festinger

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PubMed1978

Retinal image smear as a source of information about magnitude of eye movement.

A number of experiments were conducted to determine to what extent retinal image smearing during saccades provides information about the eye movement magnitude to the perceptual system. The technique involved obtaining measures of perceived movement when the total visual field was displaced in conjunction with saccadic eye movements. Trials with normal retinal smear were compared with trials on which smearing was greatly reduced or eliminated. The results are interpreted as showing that the absence of normal retinal smear during a saccade increases the uncertainty in the information available to the perceptual system and that this uncertainty results in a tendency to perceive smaller than veridical amounts of movement.

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PubMed1977

Impact of oculomotor retraining on the visual perception of curvature.

Observers viewed a computer-generated display consisting of horizontally oriented, concave-up curved lines. The position of these curves was contingent on the horizontal position of the eye so that, in order to change fixation errorlessly, from one point to another on the curve, the eye would have to execute a purely horizontal movement. In Condition H this was achieved by moving the curves horizontally, so that the minimum point was always at the horizontal eye position location, thus simulating the effect of viewing a line through a wedge prism on a contact lens. In Condition V it was achieved by moving the curves vertically so that the point fixated always had the same vertical location. In both conditions eye movements were reprogrammed rapidly to eliminate the vertical components of the saccades that were present at the start. While a small, but significant, amount of perceptual adaptation was obtained in Condition H, none at all was obtained in Condition V. The results are interpreted as not in support of such theories of perceptual adaptation to curvature distortion as require a close relationship between motor learning and perceptual change.

Adaptation, Ocular↗