Involuntary Eye Movement during Fixation is Influenced by Spatio-Temporal Frequency of Visual Stimuli

Involuntary eye movement during fixation is essential for visual information acquisition. Previous studies have suggested that such eye movement depends on the attributes of visual stimuli (e.g. Yokota, APCV2010). In this study, we focus on spatio-temporal frequency, as an attribute of visual stimul...

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Main Authors: Masae Yokota, Yasunari Yokota
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2011-05-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1068/ic331
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description Involuntary eye movement during fixation is essential for visual information acquisition. Previous studies have suggested that such eye movement depends on the attributes of visual stimuli (e.g. Yokota, APCV2010). In this study, we focus on spatio-temporal frequency, as an attribute of visual stimuli in order to understand spatio-temporal frequency property in the pathway of human vision. We measured eye movement during fixation for three subjects when 16 random-dot dynamic textures that have various frequency bands in spatially and temporally, are presented to the subjects as visual stimuli. The result shows that eye movement depends on the spatio-temporal frequency of visual stimuli. The eye movement includes higher frequency components, in other words, higher velocity components, when visual stimulus has higher spatial frequency and/or higher temporal frequency. Future detailed experiments will show that involuntary eye movement during fixation might be influenced by spatio-temporal frequency sensitivity in vision.
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spelling doaj.art-f887a7aa70d64786aa209ce0bdb811dc2022-12-21T19:53:35ZengSAGE Publishingi-Perception2041-66952011-05-01210.1068/ic33110.1068_ic331Involuntary Eye Movement during Fixation is Influenced by Spatio-Temporal Frequency of Visual StimuliMasae Yokota0Yasunari Yokota1Faculty of Information Culture, Nagoya Bunri UniversityFaculty of Engineering, Gifu UniversityInvoluntary eye movement during fixation is essential for visual information acquisition. Previous studies have suggested that such eye movement depends on the attributes of visual stimuli (e.g. Yokota, APCV2010). In this study, we focus on spatio-temporal frequency, as an attribute of visual stimuli in order to understand spatio-temporal frequency property in the pathway of human vision. We measured eye movement during fixation for three subjects when 16 random-dot dynamic textures that have various frequency bands in spatially and temporally, are presented to the subjects as visual stimuli. The result shows that eye movement depends on the spatio-temporal frequency of visual stimuli. The eye movement includes higher frequency components, in other words, higher velocity components, when visual stimulus has higher spatial frequency and/or higher temporal frequency. Future detailed experiments will show that involuntary eye movement during fixation might be influenced by spatio-temporal frequency sensitivity in vision.https://doi.org/10.1068/ic331
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title Involuntary Eye Movement during Fixation is Influenced by Spatio-Temporal Frequency of Visual Stimuli
title_full Involuntary Eye Movement during Fixation is Influenced by Spatio-Temporal Frequency of Visual Stimuli
title_fullStr Involuntary Eye Movement during Fixation is Influenced by Spatio-Temporal Frequency of Visual Stimuli
title_full_unstemmed Involuntary Eye Movement during Fixation is Influenced by Spatio-Temporal Frequency of Visual Stimuli
title_short Involuntary Eye Movement during Fixation is Influenced by Spatio-Temporal Frequency of Visual Stimuli
title_sort involuntary eye movement during fixation is influenced by spatio temporal frequency of visual stimuli
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