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Predicting 2D Target Velocity Cannot Help 2D Motion Integration for Smooth Pursuit Initiation

¹Team Dynamic de la Perception Visuelle et de l’Action (DyVA), Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; and ²Department of Psychology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Submitted 26 May 2006; accepted in final form 18 August 2006

Smooth pursuit eye movements reflect the temporal dynamics of bidimensional (2D) visual motion integration. When tracking a single, tilted line, initial pursuit direction is biased toward unidimensional (1D) edge motion signals, which are orthogonal to the line orientation. Over 200 ms, tracking direction is slowly corrected to finally match the 2D object motion during steady-state pursuit. We now show that repetition of line orientation and/or motion direction does not eliminate the transient tracking direction error nor change the time course of pursuit correction. Nonetheless, multiple successive presentations of a single orientation/direction condition elicit robust anticipatory pursuit eye movements that always go in the 2D object motion direction not the 1D edge motion direction. These results demonstrate that predictive signals about target motion cannot be used for an efficient integration of ambiguous velocity signals at pursuit initiation.