title: The human oculomotor response to simultaneous visual and physical movements at two different frequencies.
abstract: In order to investigate interactions in the visual and vestibular systems' oculomotor response to linear movement, we developed a two-frequency stimulation technique. Thirteen subjects lay on their backs and were oscillated sinusoidally along their z-axes at between 0.31 and 0.81 Hz. During the oscillation subjects viewed a large, high-contrast, visual pattern oscillating in the same direction as the physical motion but at a different, non-harmonically related frequency. The evoked eye movements were measured by video-oculography and spectrally analysed. We found significant signal level at the sum and difference frequencies as well as at other frequencies not present in either stimulus. The emergence of new frequencies indicates non-linear processing consistent with an agreement-detector system that have previously proposed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otology & Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles St. Boston, MA 02114, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wall
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Assad
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Aharon
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Dimitri
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009038:Motion; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D016683:Supine Position; D014722:Vestibule, Labyrinth / Q000502:physiology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*