title: Short-latency ocular following of motion by monkeys during a fixation task.
abstract: Short-latency ocular following responses in monkeys, induced by first- and second-order motion during a fixation task, were sensitive to stimulus size, retinal eccentricity and motion duration. Latency of eye movements was no different for first- or second-order motion and simply marked the occurrence of movement in the visual field. Second-order motion produced higher velocity eye movements than did first-order motion. The velocity of eye movements was influenced by the orientation of second-order pattern components as well as their conspicuous energy. Even when partially suppressed by a fixation task, involuntary eye movements during the initial pursuit remain sensitive to several properties of visual motion.
authors.affiliation: University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Benson
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D003196:Computer Graphics; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D009038:Motion; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*