title: Eye movements in response to real and apparent motions of acoustic targets.
abstract: Monitoring of eye movements resulting from the tracking of sound displacements in total darkness confirmed the generally accepted idea that smooth pursuit cannot be induced in the absence of a real visible target. Exclusively saccadic movements were obtained with real and apparent displacements of a constant frequency source and with frequency variations associated to spatially calibrated positions through training for 5 Ss. Smooth pursuit eye movements were only observed if S was allowed to point and follow with his hand the perceived position of acoustic targets.
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D003624:Darkness; D005133:Eye Movements; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D012438:Saccades