Correction of Saccade-Induced Midline Errors in Responses to Pure Disparity Vergence Stimuli.

Purely symmetrical vergence stimuli aligned along the midline (cyclopean axis) require only a pure vergence response. Yet, in most responses saccades are observed and these saccades must either produce an error in the desired midline response or correct an error produced by asymmetry in the vergence...

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Main Authors: John L. Semmlow, Yung-Fu Chen, Bérangère Granger-Donnetti, Tara L. Alvarez
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Published: MDPI AG 2009-02-01
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Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2280
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Yung-Fu Chen
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description Purely symmetrical vergence stimuli aligned along the midline (cyclopean axis) require only a pure vergence response. Yet, in most responses saccades are observed and these saccades must either produce an error in the desired midline response or correct an error produced by asymmetry in the vergence response. A previous study (Semmlow, et al. 2008) has shown that the first saccade to appear in a response to a pure vergence stimulus usually increased the deviation from the midline, although all subjects (N = 12) had some responses where the initial saccade corrected a vergence induced midline error. This study focuses on those responses where the initial saccade produces an increased midline deviation and the resultant compensation that ultimately brings the eyes to the correct binocular position. This correction is accomplished by a higher level compensatory mechanism that uses offsetting asymmetrical vergence and/or corrective saccades. While responses consist of a mixture of the two compensatory mechanisms, the dominant mechanism is subject-dependent. Since fixation errors are quite small (minutes of arc), some feedback controlled physiological process involving smooth eye movements, and possibly saccades, must move the eyes to reduce binocular error to fixation disparity levels.
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spelling doaj-art-c059f3e0529944aba8732a7273b59cac2025-08-20T02:27:54ZengMDPI AGJournal of Eye Movement Research1995-86922009-02-012510.16910/jemr.2.5.1Correction of Saccade-Induced Midline Errors in Responses to Pure Disparity Vergence Stimuli.John L. Semmlow0Yung-Fu Chen1Bérangère Granger-Donnetti2Tara L. Alvarez3Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), New Brunswick, New Jersey USA, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey USADepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Dayeh University, Changhua, TaiwanEssilor International, St. Maur, FRANCEDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, USAPurely symmetrical vergence stimuli aligned along the midline (cyclopean axis) require only a pure vergence response. Yet, in most responses saccades are observed and these saccades must either produce an error in the desired midline response or correct an error produced by asymmetry in the vergence response. A previous study (Semmlow, et al. 2008) has shown that the first saccade to appear in a response to a pure vergence stimulus usually increased the deviation from the midline, although all subjects (N = 12) had some responses where the initial saccade corrected a vergence induced midline error. This study focuses on those responses where the initial saccade produces an increased midline deviation and the resultant compensation that ultimately brings the eyes to the correct binocular position. This correction is accomplished by a higher level compensatory mechanism that uses offsetting asymmetrical vergence and/or corrective saccades. While responses consist of a mixture of the two compensatory mechanisms, the dominant mechanism is subject-dependent. Since fixation errors are quite small (minutes of arc), some feedback controlled physiological process involving smooth eye movements, and possibly saccades, must move the eyes to reduce binocular error to fixation disparity levels.https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2280vergencesaccadeoculomotor controlbinocularitysaccade-vergence interaction
spellingShingle John L. Semmlow
Yung-Fu Chen
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Tara L. Alvarez
Correction of Saccade-Induced Midline Errors in Responses to Pure Disparity Vergence Stimuli.
Journal of Eye Movement Research
vergence
saccade
oculomotor control
binocularity
saccade-vergence interaction
title Correction of Saccade-Induced Midline Errors in Responses to Pure Disparity Vergence Stimuli.
title_full Correction of Saccade-Induced Midline Errors in Responses to Pure Disparity Vergence Stimuli.
title_fullStr Correction of Saccade-Induced Midline Errors in Responses to Pure Disparity Vergence Stimuli.
title_full_unstemmed Correction of Saccade-Induced Midline Errors in Responses to Pure Disparity Vergence Stimuli.
title_short Correction of Saccade-Induced Midline Errors in Responses to Pure Disparity Vergence Stimuli.
title_sort correction of saccade induced midline errors in responses to pure disparity vergence stimuli
topic vergence
saccade
oculomotor control
binocularity
saccade-vergence interaction
url https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2280
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