Fixational ocular motor control is plastic despite visual deprivation.

Abstract:

:The aim of this study was to assess the plasticity of human voluntary fixational eye movement control in relation to visual experience/chronic visual deprivation. Twelve blind adults participated (self-reported vision < or = light perception in each eye; age range = 23-56 years; visual experience range = 0-28 years; blindness duration range = 6-55 years). Infrared-based recordings of horizontal eye movements were made before, during, and immediately after three 30-s periods of auditory ocular motor feedback, while participants were instructed to look straight ahead and keep their eyes as steady as possible. Percent change in horizontal displacement of the eye during and after feedback was compared with the no-feedback baseline. Eleven of the 12 individuals demonstrated feedback-mediated increase in eye stability, which improved as a function of visual experience. Improved eye stability was inversely related to duration of blindness. Clearly, blind adults can use nonvisual external feedback to stabilize gaze. Thus, the fixational subsystem can exhibit improved voluntary control despite chronic visual deprivation. Possible cortical and subcortical mechanisms are discussed.

journal_name

Vis Neurosci

journal_title

Visual neuroscience

authors

Hall EC,Ciuffreda KJ

doi

10.1017/s0952523802194090

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-07-01 00:00:00

pages

475-81

issue

4

eissn

0952-5238

issn

1469-8714

pii

S0952523802194090

journal_volume

19

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