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Abstract
Smooth pursuit eye movements maintain the line of sight on smoothly moving targets. Although often studied as a response to sensory motion, pursuit anticipates changes in motion trajectories, thus reducing harmful consequences due to sensorimotor processing delays. Evidence for predictive pursuit includes (a) anticipatory smooth eye movements (ASEM) in the direction of expected future target motion that can be evoked by perceptual cues or by memory for recent motion, (b) pursuit during periods of target occlusion, and (c) improved accuracy of pursuit with self-generated or biologically realistic target motions. Predictive pursuit has been linked to neural activity in the frontal cortex and in sensory motion areas. As behavioral and neural evidence for predictive pursuit grows and statistically based models augment or replace linear systems approaches, pursuit is being regarded less as a reaction to immediate sensory motion and more as a predictive response, with retinal motion serving as one of a number of contributing cues.
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Affiliation(s)
- Eileen Kowler
- Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA; , ,
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- Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA; , ,
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- Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA; , , .,Current affiliation: Department of Psychology, State University of New York, College at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York 13820, USA;
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- Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA; , ,
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Lenglet T, Mirault J, Veyrat-Masson M, Funkiewiez A, Amador MDM, Bruneteau G, Le Forestier N, Pradat PF, Salachas F, Vacher Y, Lacomblez L, Lorenceau J. Cursive Eye-Writing With Smooth-Pursuit Eye-Movement Is Possible in Subjects With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Front Neurosci 2019; 13:538. [PMID: 31191230 PMCID: PMC6548885 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder causing a progressive motor weakness of all voluntary muscles, whose progression challenges communication modalities such as handwriting or speech. The current study investigated whether ALS subjects can use Eye-On-Line (EOL), a novel eye-operated communication device allowing, after training, to voluntarily control smooth-pursuit eye-movements (SPEM) so as to eye-write in cursive. To that aim, ALS participants (n = 12) with preserved eye-movements but impaired handwriting were trained during six on-site visits. The primary outcome of the study was the recognition of eye-written digits (0-9) from ALS and healthy control subjects by naïve "readers." Changes in oculomotor performance and the safety of EOL were also evaluated. At the end of the program, 69.4% of the eye-written digits from 11 ALS subjects were recognized by naïve readers, similar to the 67.3% found for eye-written digits from controls participants, with however, large inter-individual differences in both groups of "writers." Training with EOL was associated with a transient fatigue leading one ALS subject to drop out the study at the fifth visit. Otherwise, itching eyes was the most common adverse event (3 subjects). This study shows that, despite the impact of ALS on the motor system, most ALS participants could improve their mastering of eye-movements, so as to produce recognizable eye-written digits, although the eye-traces sometimes needed smoothing to ease digit legibility from both ALS subjects and control participants. The capability to endogenously and voluntarily generate eye-traces using EOL brings a novel way to communicate for disabled individuals, allowing creative personal and emotional expression.
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Affiliation(s)
- Timothée Lenglet
- Département de Neurologie, Centre de Référence SLA-IdF, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France.,Département de Neurophysiologie, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs (UMR 8248), Département d'Études Cognitives de l'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs (UMR 8248), Département d'Études Cognitives de l'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM), UMRS 975, ICM-INSERM 1127, FrontLab, Paris, France.,Département de Neurologie, Institut de la Mémoire et de la Maladie d'Alzheimer, Centre de Référence National 'Démences Rares', Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Département de Neurologie, Centre de Référence SLA-IdF, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Département de Neurologie, Centre de Référence SLA-IdF, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France.,Centre de Recherche en Myologie, UMRS974, Equipe 10 NMCONNECT, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Département de Neurologie, Centre de Référence SLA-IdF, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France.,Département de Recherche en Éthique, EA 1610: Etude des Sciences et Techniques, Université Paris Sud/Paris Saclay, Paris, France
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- Département de Neurologie, Centre de Référence SLA-IdF, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France.,Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute Ulster University, C-TRIC, Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Londonderry, United Kingdom
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- Département de Neurologie, Centre de Référence SLA-IdF, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Délégation à la Recherche Clinique et à l'Innovation (DRCI), Hôpital Saint-Louis, APHP, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMRS 1127 and CIC-1422, ICM, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, Département de Neurologie, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs (UMR 8248), Département d'Études Cognitives de l'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Université, Institut de la Vision, Inserm UMR S 968-CNRS UMR 7210, Paris, France
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Boyer EO, Portron A, Bevilacqua F, Lorenceau J. Continuous Auditory Feedback of Eye Movements: An Exploratory Study toward Improving Oculomotor Control. Front Neurosci 2017; 11:197. [PMID: 28487626 PMCID: PMC5403913 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Accepted: 03/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
As eye movements are mostly automatic and overtly generated to attain visual goals, individuals have a poor metacognitive knowledge of their own eye movements. We present an exploratory study on the effects of real-time continuous auditory feedback generated by eye movements. We considered both a tracking task and a production task where smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEM) can be endogenously generated. In particular, we used a visual paradigm which enables to generate and control SPEM in the absence of a moving visual target. We investigated whether real-time auditory feedback of eye movement dynamics might improve learning in both tasks, through a training protocol over 8 days. The results indicate that real-time sonification of eye movements can actually modify the oculomotor behavior, and reinforce intrinsic oculomotor perception. Nevertheless, large inter-individual differences were observed preventing us from reaching a strong conclusion on sensorimotor learning improvements.
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Affiliation(s)
- Eric O Boyer
- STMS Lab, IRCAM - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPMCParis, France
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, LSP Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR8248, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSLParis, France
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- STMS Lab, IRCAM - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPMCParis, France
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, LSP Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR8248, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSLParis, France
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