Citation

Noguchi K, Haishi K, Sato D. Percept. Mot. Skills 1994; 78(1): 112-114.

Affiliation

Department of Educational Research for the Handicapped Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8177646

Abstract

We report a phenomenon that seems to have potential to elucidate a role of eye movement in motion perception. When tracking a target controlled by a triangular wave, the viewer perceives movement of the target like a ball bouncing in between two walls. We measured eye movement with electrooculograms (EOGs) when the subject was tracking a target controlled by a triangular wave. Eye movement after passing the turning point and rapidly returning to the target with saccadic movement and then smoothly tracking the target was recorded for all 4 adults. It was considered that extraretinal information on eye position during saccade may mainly contribute to this illusion.

Language: en