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Perisaccadic visual perception.

Steffen Klingenhoefer1, Bart Krekelberg1

  • 1Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA.

Journal of Vision
|August 25, 2017
PubMed
Summary
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Human and macaque primates share similar visual perception during rapid eye movements (saccades), experiencing reduced detectability and mislocalization. However, macaques show less precise eye position knowledge and altered perisaccadic compression.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Comparative Psychology
  • Vision Science

Background:

  • Primates utilize rapid eye movements (saccades) to explore their visual environment, leveraging the fovea's high sensitivity.
  • Maintaining a stable visual percept during saccades requires complex neural mechanisms to integrate changing visual input.
  • Previous research often assumed similar perisaccadic perception between humans and nonhuman primates.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To directly compare perisaccadic visual perception in humans and nonhuman primates (macaques).
  • To test the assumption that perisaccadic perception mechanisms are conserved across primate species.
  • To identify both similarities and differences in how humans and macaques process visual information during saccades.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted identical perisaccadic visual perception experiments in both human and macaque subjects.
  • Analyzed behavioral data to assess target detectability and localization accuracy around the time of saccades.
  • Compared quantitative measures of perisaccadic visual processing between the two species.

Main Results:

  • Confirmed qualitative similarities in perisaccadic perception, including reduced target detectability and mislocalization during saccades for both species.
  • Identified significant quantitative differences: macaques exhibited less precise eye-position-dependent localization and lower perisaccadic stimulus detection rates.
  • Observed that perisaccadic compression in macaques was not directed towards the saccade target, unlike in humans.

Conclusions:

  • Qualitative similarities support the use of macaques as models for studying primate visual brain functions, particularly foveal vision.
  • Quantitative differences necessitate a re-evaluation of current models linking neural activity during saccades to observed perceptual phenomena.
  • Highlights the need for species-specific considerations when extrapolating findings from nonhuman primate research to human visual perception.