TY  - JOUR
AU  - Zimmermann, E.
AU  - Born, S.
AU  - Fink, G. R.
AU  - Cavanagh, P.
TI  - Masking produces compression of space and time in the absence of eye movements
JO  - Journal of neurophysiology
VL  - 112
IS  - 12
SN  - 0022-3077
CY  - Bethesda, Md.
PB  - Soc.
M1  - FZJ-2014-05363
SP  - 3066-3076
PY  - 2014
AB  - Whenever the visual stream is abruptly disturbed by eye movements, blinks, masks, or flashes of light, the visual system needs to retrieve the new locations of current targets and to reconstruct the timing of events to straddle the interruption. This process may introduce position and timing errors. We here report that very similar errors are seen in human subjects across three different paradigms when disturbances are caused by either eye movements, as is well known, or, as we now show, masking. We suggest that the characteristic effects of eye movements on position and time, spatial and temporal compression and saccadic suppression of displacement, are consequences of the interruption and the subsequent reconnection and are seen also when visual input is masked without any eye movements. Our data show that compression and suppression effects are not solely a product of ocular motor activity but instead can be properties of a correspondence process that links the targets of interest across interruptions in visual input, no matter what their source.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000346471200005
C6  - pmid:25231617
DO  - DOI:10.1152/jn.00156.2014
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/171801
ER  -