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1 Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: marian.berryhill{at}dartmouth.edu.
Unlike saccades, smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEMs) are not under voluntary control and their initiation generally requires a moving visual target. However, there are various reports of limited smooth pursuit of the motion of a subjects own finger in total darkness (pursuit based on proprioceptive feedback, e.g. Gertz 1916; Hashiba et al. 1996) and to the combination of proprioception and tactile motion as an unseen finger was moved voluntarily over a smooth surface (Watanabe and Shimojo 1997). In contrast, SPEMs to auditory motion are not distinguishable from pursuit of imagined motion (Boucher et al. 2004). These reports of smooth pursuit of non-visual motion cues used a variety of paradigms and different stimuli. In addition, the results have often relied primarily on qualitative descriptions of the smooth pursuit (see review by Ilg 1997). Here, we directly compare measurements of smooth pursuit gain (eye velocity/stimulus velocity) to visual, auditory, proprioceptive, tactile, and combined tactile + proprioceptive motion stimuli. The results demonstrate high gains for visual pursuit, low gains for auditory pursuit, and intermediate, statistically indistinguishable gains for tactile, proprioceptive, proprioceptive + tactile pursuit.
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