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BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS
Volume 91, Issue 3, Pages 131-137Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-004-0514-2
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During saccadic eye movements, the visual world shifts rapidly across the retina. Perceptual continuity is thought to be maintained by active neural mechanisms that compensate for this displacement, bringing the presaccadic scene into a postsaccadic reference frame. Because of this active mechanism, objects appearing briefly around the time of the saccade are perceived at erroneous locations, a phenomenon called perisaccadic mislocalization. The position and direction of localization errors can inform us about the different reference frames involved. It has been found, for example, that errors are not simply made in the direction of the saccade but directed toward the saccade target, indicating that the compensatory mechanism involves spatial compression rather than translation. A recent study confirmed that localization errors also occur in the direction orthogonal to saccade direction, but only for eccentricities far from the fovea, beyond the saccade target. This spatially specific pattern of distortion cannot be explained by a simple compression of space around the saccade target. Here I show that a change of reference frames (i.e., translation) in cortical (logarithmic) coordinates, taking into account the cortical magnification factor, can accurately predict these spatial patterns of mislocalization. The flashed object projects onto the cortex in presaccadic (fovea-centered) coordinates but is perceived in postsaccadic (target-centered) coordinates.
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