Paper Info
Title
Spatiotopic updating across saccades revealed by spatially-specific fMRI adaptation.
Abstract
Brain representations of visual space are predominantly eye-centred (retinotopic) yet our experience of the world is largely world-centred (spatiotopic). A long-standing question is how the brain creates continuity between these reference frames across successive eye movements (saccades). Here we use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to address whether spatially specific repetition suppression (RS) is evident during trans-saccadic perception. We presented two successive Gabor patches (S1 and S2) in either the upper or lower visual field, left or right of fixation. Spatial congruency was manipulated by having S1 and S2 occur in the same or different upper/lower visual field. On half the trials, a saccade was cued between S1 and S2, placing spatiotopic and retinotopic reference frames in opposition. Equivalent RS was observed in the posterior parietal cortex and frontal eye fields when S1-S2 were spatiotopically congruent, irrespective of whether retinotopic and spatiotopic coordinates were in accord or were placed in opposition by a saccade. Additionally the post-saccadic response to S2 demonstrated spatially-specific RS in retinotopic visual regions, with stronger RS in extrastriate than striate cortex. Collectively, these results are consistent with a robust trans-saccadic spatial updating mechanism for object position that directly influences even the earliest levels of visual processing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.11.071
NeuroImage
Field
DocType
Volume
Developmental psychology,Visual space,Visual processing,Psychology,Eye movement,Posterior parietal cortex,Frontal eye fields,Saccade,Visual field,fMRI adaptation
Journal
147
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1053-8119
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S L Fairhall111.11
Jens Schwarzbach2307.34
Angelika Lingnau362.34
Martijn Gerbrand van Koningsbruggen400.68
David Melcher541.74