Adaptive changes to saccade amplitude and target localization do not require pre-saccadic target visibility
The accuracy of saccadic eye movements is maintained by saccadic adaptation, a learning mechanism that is proposed to rely on visual prediction error, i.e., a mismatch between the pre-saccadically predicted and post-saccadically experienced position of the saccade target. However, recent research in...
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Division/Institute: | FB 07: Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft |
Document types: | Article |
Media types: | Text |
Publication date: | 2023 |
Date of publication on miami: | 19.09.2024 |
Modification date: | 19.09.2024 |
Edition statement: | [Electronic ed.] |
Source: | Scientific Reports 13 (2023), 8315, 1-14 |
Subjects: | Motor control; Oculomotor system; Visual system |
DDC Subject: | 150: Psychologie |
License: | CC BY 4.0 |
Language: | Englisch |
Funding: | Finanziert über die DEAL-Vereinbarung mit Wiley, Springer oder Elsevier 2019–2023. Förderer: European Commission / Projektnummer: 951910 |
Format: | PDF document |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-15948497866 |
Other Identifiers: | DOI: 10.17879/25948662238 |
Permalink: | https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-15948497866 |
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Digital documents: | 10.1038_s41598-023-35434-8.pdf |
The accuracy of saccadic eye movements is maintained by saccadic adaptation, a learning mechanism that is proposed to rely on visual prediction error, i.e., a mismatch between the pre-saccadically predicted and post-saccadically experienced position of the saccade target. However, recent research indicates that saccadic adaptation might be driven by postdictive motor error, i.e., a retrospective estimation of the pre-saccadic target position based on the post-saccadic image. We investigated whether oculomotor behavior can be adapted based on post-saccadic target information alone. We measured eye movements and localization judgements as participants aimed saccades at an initially invisible target, which was always shown only after the saccade. Each such trial was followed by either a pre- or a post-saccadic localization trial. The target position was fixed for the first 100 trials of the experiment and, during the following 200 trials, successively shifted inward or outward. Saccade amplitude and the pre- and post-saccadic localization judgements adjusted to the changing target position. Our results suggest that post-saccadic information is sufficient to induce error-reducing adaptive changes in saccade amplitude and target localization, possibly reflecting continuous updating of the estimated pre-saccadic target location driven by postdictive motor error.