Retinal motion statistics during natural locomotion

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• Ivan Tomic
• Wednesday 14 June 2023, 15:00-16:00
• Zoom link: www.bayslab.org/craikjc.

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This week we will discuss and debate a very recent paper by Muller and colleagues, published in eLife (2023).

Abstract: “Walking through an environment generates retinal motion, which humans rely on to perform a variety of visual tasks. Retinal motion patterns are determined by an interconnected set of factors, including gaze location, gaze stabilization, the structure of the environment, and the walker’s goals. The characteristics of these motion signals have important consequences for neural organization and behavior. However, to date, there are no empirical in situ measurements of how combined eye and body movements interact with real 3D environments to shape the statistics of retinal motion signals. Here, we collect measurements of the eyes, the body, and the 3D environment during locomotion. We describe properties of the resulting retinal motion patterns. We explain how these patterns are shaped by gaze location in the world, as well as by behavior, and how they may provide a template for the way motion sensitivity and receptive field properties vary across the visual field” (Muller et al., 2023).

Reference: Muller, K.S., Matthis, J., Bonnen, K., Cormack, L. K., Huk, A. C., & Hayhoe, M. (2023). Retinal motion statistics during natural locomotion. eLife, 12. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.82410

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