title: The behavioral receptive field underlying motion integration for primate tracking eye movements.
abstract: Short-latency ocular following are reflexive, tracking eye movements that are observed in human and non-human primates in response to a sudden and brief translation of the image. Initial, open-loop part of the eye acceleration reflects many of the properties attributed to low-level motion processing. We review a very large set of behavioral data demonstrating several key properties of motion detection and integration stages and their dynamics. We propose that these properties can be modeled as a behavioral receptive field exhibiting linear and nonlinear mechanisms responsible for context-dependent spatial integration and gain control. Functional models similar to that used for describing neuronal properties of receptive fields can then be applied successfully.
authors.affiliation: Team Dynamics of Visual Perception and Action (DyVA), Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée (INCM), CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France. guillaume.masson@incm.cnrs-mrs.fr
authors.forename: Guillaume S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Masson
authors.forename: Laurent U
authors.initials: LU
authors.lastname: Perrinet
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D011323:Primates / Q000502:physiology*; D055139:Sensory Gating / Q000502:physiology; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology