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The Journal of Neuroscience, September 10, 2003, 23(23):8340-8350
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Do Visual Cues Contribute to the Neural Estimate of Viewing Distance Used by the Oculomotor System?
Min Wei, Gregory C. DeAngelis, andDora E. Angelaki Department of Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
Perceived shape and depth judgments that require knowledge of viewing distance are strongly influenced by both vergence angle and the pattern of vertical disparities across large visual fields. On the basis of this established contribution of visual cues to the neural estimate of viewing distance, we hypothesized that the oculomotor system would also make use of high-level visual cues to distance. To address this hypothesis, we investigated how compensatory eye movements during whole-body translation scale with viewing distance. Monkeys viewed large-field (85 x 68°) random-dot stereograms that were rear projected onto a fixed screen and simulated either a textured wall or pyramid at different viewing distances. In these stereograms, we independently manipulated vergence angle, horizontal and vertical disparity gradients, relative horizontal disparities, and textural cues to viewing distance. For comparison, random-dot patterns were also projected onto a moveable screen placed at different physical distances from the animal. Several cycles of left-right sinusoidal motion of the monkey at 5 Hz were interleaved with several cycles of motion in darkness, and the relationship between eye movement responses and viewing distance was quantified. As expected from previous work, the amplitude of compensatory eye movements depended strongly on vergence angle. Although visual cues to distance had a statistically significant effect on eye movements, these effects were
20-fold weaker than the effect of vergence angle. We conclude that sensory and motor systems do not share a common neural estimate of viewing distance and that the oculomotor system relies far less on visual cues than the perceptual system.
Key words: eye movement; binocular; vestibular; vestibuloocular; vergence; stereopsis; distance perception
Received April 15, 2003; revised June 10, 2003; accepted June 13, 2003.
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