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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Vision Science

Background:

  • Perceptual stability is maintained despite constant retinal image shifts during saccadic eye movements.
  • The mechanisms underlying visual stability, such as cancellation and assumption accounts, are debated.
  • Saccadic suppression of displacement (SSD) provides evidence for assumption-based models of visual stability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the interplay between cancellation and assumption mechanisms in visual stability.
  • To determine how saccade-induced retinal displacements are processed and perceived.
  • To elucidate the conditions under which SSD occurs and when it is relieved.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed saccadic eye movements with targets undergoing displacements.
  • Displacements were introduced parallel and orthogonal to the saccade direction.
  • The visibility of target displacements during saccades was assessed under different conditions.

Main Results:

  • Orthogonal target displacements relieved SSD for parallel displacements, suggesting an interaction between cancellation and assumption.
  • Visual stability is maintained when post-saccadic target positions fall within a region of habitual saccadic variability.
  • Displacements outside this region are perceived, leading to remapping of object positions.

Conclusions:

  • Visual stability results from an interplay between eye movement cancellation and prior assumptions of world stability.
  • The perception of saccade-induced displacements depends on their magnitude and orientation relative to saccadic variability.
  • These findings challenge purely cancellation or assumption-based models, proposing a hybrid mechanism for visual constancy.