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Citation

Fang Y, Nakashima R, Matsumiya K, Kuriki I, Shioiri S. PLoS One 2015; 10(3): e0121035.

Affiliation

Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; Core Research for Evolutional Science & Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Public Library of Science)

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0121035

PMID

25799510

Abstract

We investigated coordinated movements between the eyes and head ("eye-head coordination") in relation to vision for action. Several studies have measured eye and head movements during a single gaze shift, focusing on the mechanisms of motor control during eye-head coordination. However, in everyday life, gaze shifts occur sequentially and are accompanied by movements of the head and body. Under such conditions, visual cognitive processing influences eye movements and might also influence eye-head coordination because sequential gaze shifts include cycles of visual processing (fixation) and data acquisition (gaze shifts). In the present study, we examined how the eyes and head move in coordination during visual search in a large visual field. Subjects moved their eyes, head, and body without restriction inside a 360° visual display system. We found patterns of eye-head coordination that differed those observed in single gaze-shift studies. First, we frequently observed multiple saccades during one continuous head movement, and the contribution of head movement to gaze shifts increased as the number of saccades increased. This relationship between head movements and sequential gaze shifts suggests eye-head coordination over several saccade-fixation sequences; this could be related to cognitive processing because saccade-fixation cycles are the result of visual cognitive processing. Second, distribution bias of eye position during gaze fixation was highly correlated with head orientation. The distribution peak of eye position was biased in the same direction as head orientation. This influence of head orientation suggests that eye-head coordination is involved in gaze fixation, when the visual system processes retinal information. This further supports the role of eye-head coordination in visual cognitive processing.


Language: en

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