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Kirkpatrick RH, Booij L, Riek HC, Huang J, Pitigoi IC, Brien DC, Coe BC, Couturier J, Khalid-Khan S, Munoz DP. Oculomotor behaviors in youth with an eating disorder: findings from a video-based eye tracking task. J Eat Disord 2024; 12:121. [PMID: 39169420 PMCID: PMC11337776 DOI: 10.1186/s40337-024-01084-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2024] [Accepted: 08/10/2024] [Indexed: 08/23/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND The oculomotor circuit spans many cortical and subcortical areas that have been implicated in psychiatric disease. This, combined with previous findings, suggests that eye tracking may be a useful method to investigate eating disorders. Therefore, this study aimed to assess oculomotor behaviors in youth with and without an eating disorder. METHODS Female youth with and without an eating disorder completed a structured task involving randomly interleaved pro-saccade (toward at a stimulus) and anti-saccade (away from stimulus) trials with video-based eye tracking. Differences in saccades (rapid eye movements between two points), eye blinks and pupil were examined. RESULTS Youth with an eating disorder (n = 65, Mage = 17.16 ± 3.5 years) were compared to healthy controls (HC; n = 65, Mage = 17.88 ± 4.3 years). The eating disorder group was composed of individuals with anorexia nervosa (n = 49), bulimia nervosa (n = 7) and other specified feeding or eating disorder (n = 9). The eating disorder group was further divided into two subgroups: individuals with a restrictive spectrum eating disorder (ED-R; n = 43) or a bulimic spectrum eating disorder (ED-BP; n = 22). In pro-saccade trials, the eating disorder group made significantly more fixation breaks than HCs (F(1,128) = 5.33, p = 0.023). The ED-BP group made the most anticipatory pro-saccades, followed by ED-R, then HCs (F(2,127) = 3.38, p = 0.037). Groups did not differ on rate of correct express or regular latency pro-saccades. In anti-saccade trials, groups only significantly differed on percentage of direction errors corrected (F(2, 127) = 4.554, p = 0.012). The eating disorder group had a significantly smaller baseline pupil size (F(2,127) = 3.60, p = 0.030) and slower pro-saccade dilation velocity (F(2,127) = 3.30, p = 0.040) compared to HCs. The ED-R group had the lowest blink probability during the intertrial interval (ITI), followed by ED-BP, with HCs having the highest ITI blink probability (F(2,125) = 3.63, p = 0.029). CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that youth with an eating disorder may have different oculomotor behaviors during a structured eye tracking task. The oculomotor behavioral differences observed in this study presents an important step towards identifying neurobiological and cognitive contributions towards eating disorders.
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- Ryan H Kirkpatrick
- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Botterell Hall, 18 Stuart St, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada.
- School of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
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- Eating Disorders Continuum & Research Centre, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Botterell Hall, 18 Stuart St, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Botterell Hall, 18 Stuart St, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Botterell Hall, 18 Stuart St, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Botterell Hall, 18 Stuart St, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Botterell Hall, 18 Stuart St, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Botterell Hall, 18 Stuart St, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Botterell Hall, 18 Stuart St, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada
- School of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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Yang HW, Choe JY, Noh SR, Kim JL, Han JW, Kim KW. Exploring age-related changes in saccades during cognitive tasks in healthy adults. Front Behav Neurosci 2024; 17:1301318. [PMID: 38249127 PMCID: PMC10796470 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1301318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
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Introduction Although eye movements such as saccades are related to internal cognitive processes and are independent of visual processing, few studies have investigated whether non-visual cognitive tasks simultaneously affect horizontal and vertical saccades in younger and older adults. Methods We recruited 28 younger adults aged 20-29 years and 26 older adults aged >60 years through advertisements in community settings. All participants were free of major psychiatric, neurological, or ocular diseases. All participants performed the mental arithmetic task (MAT) and verbal fluency task (VFT). The primary measures were saccade parameters, including frequency, mean amplitude, and mean velocity. Results During MAT and VFT, the frequencies of horizontal and vertical saccades increased (p = 0.0005 for horizontal saccade in MAT; p < 0.0001 for horizontal saccade in VFT; p = 0.012 for vertical saccade in MAT; p = 0.001 for vertical saccade in VFT), but were comparable between MAT and VFT. The old group showed a slower vertical saccade than the young group during the tasks (p = 0.011 in the MAT phase; p = 0.006 in the VFT phase). The amplitude of the horizontal saccade decreased in both groups during MAT compared to the resting period (p = 0.013), but did not change significantly during VFT. Discussion Saccade parameters can change during non-visual cognitive tasks with differences between age groups and saccade directions. This study significantly contributes to our understanding of the distinct dynamics of horizontal and vertical saccades across various age group in cognitive aging, despite its restricted focus on specific saccade parameters and cognitive tasks, and inclusion solely of cognitively normal individuals. This study highlights the importance of saccade analysis in elucidating age-related cognitive changes. In conclusion, saccades should be examined in future studies as a potential non-invasive biomarker for early detection of cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Hee Won Yang
- Department of Psychiatry, Chungnam National University Hospital, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Goliskina V, Ceple I, Kassaliete E, Serpa E, Truksa R, Svede A, Krauze L, Fomins S, Ikaunieks G, Krumina G. The Effect of Stimulus Contrast and Spatial Position on Saccadic Eye Movement Parameters. Vision (Basel) 2023; 7:68. [PMID: 37873896 PMCID: PMC10594497 DOI: 10.3390/vision7040068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Revised: 10/05/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/25/2023] Open
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(1) Background: Saccadic eye movements are rapid eye movements aimed to position the object image on the central retina, ensuring high-resolution data sampling across the visual field. Although saccadic eye movements are studied extensively, different experimental settings applied across different studies have left an open question of whether and how stimulus parameters can affect the saccadic performance. The current study aims to explore the effect of stimulus contrast and spatial position on saccadic eye movement latency, peak velocity and accuracy measurements. (2) Methods: Saccadic eye movement targets of different contrast levels were presented at four different spatial positions. The eye movements were recorded with a Tobii Pro Fusion video-oculograph (250 Hz). (3) Results: The results demonstrate a significant effect of stimulus spatial position on the latency and peak velocity measurements at a medium grey background, 30 cd/m2 (negative and positive stimulus polarity), light grey background, 90 cd/m2 (negative polarity), and black background, 3 cd/m2 (positive polarity). A significant effect of the stimulus spatial position was observed on the accuracy measurements when the saccadic eye movement stimuli were presented on a medium grey background (negative polarity) and on a black background. No significant effect of stimulus contrast was observed on the peak velocity measurements under all conditions. A significant stimulus contrast effect on latency and accuracy was observed only on a light grey background. (4) Conclusions: The best saccadic eye movement performance (lowest latency, highest peak velocity and accuracy measurements) can be observed when the saccades are oriented to the right and left from the central fixation point. Furthermore, when presenting the stimulus on a light grey background, a very low contrast stimuli should be considered carefully.
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- Viktorija Goliskina
- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, University of Latvia, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia; (E.K.); (E.S.); (R.T.); (A.S.); (L.K.); (G.I.); (G.K.)
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, University of Latvia, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia; (E.K.); (E.S.); (R.T.); (A.S.); (L.K.); (G.I.); (G.K.)
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, University of Latvia, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia; (E.K.); (E.S.); (R.T.); (A.S.); (L.K.); (G.I.); (G.K.)
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, University of Latvia, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia; (E.K.); (E.S.); (R.T.); (A.S.); (L.K.); (G.I.); (G.K.)
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, University of Latvia, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia; (E.K.); (E.S.); (R.T.); (A.S.); (L.K.); (G.I.); (G.K.)
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, University of Latvia, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia; (E.K.); (E.S.); (R.T.); (A.S.); (L.K.); (G.I.); (G.K.)
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, University of Latvia, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia; (E.K.); (E.S.); (R.T.); (A.S.); (L.K.); (G.I.); (G.K.)
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- Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, LV-1063 Riga, Latvia;
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, University of Latvia, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia; (E.K.); (E.S.); (R.T.); (A.S.); (L.K.); (G.I.); (G.K.)
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, University of Latvia, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia; (E.K.); (E.S.); (R.T.); (A.S.); (L.K.); (G.I.); (G.K.)
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Greene HH, Diwadkar VA, Brown JM. Regularities in vertical saccadic metrics: new insights, and future perspectives. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1157686. [PMID: 37251031 PMCID: PMC10213562 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1157686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023] Open
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Introduction Asymmetries in processing by the healthy brain demonstrate regularities that facilitate the modeling of brain operations. The goal of the present study was to determine asymmetries in saccadic metrics during visual exploration, devoid of confounding clutter in the visual field. Methods Twenty healthy adults searched for a small, low-contrast gaze-contingent target on a blank computer screen. The target was visible, only if eye fixation was within a 5 deg. by 5 deg. area of the target's location. Results Replicating previously-reported asymmetries, repeated measures contrast analyses indicated that up-directed saccades were executed earlier, were smaller in amplitude, and had greater probability than down-directed saccades. Given that saccade velocities are confounded by saccade amplitudes, it was also useful to investigate saccade kinematics of visual exploration, as a function of vertical saccade direction. Saccade kinematics were modeled for each participant, as a square root relationship between average saccade velocity (i.e., average velocity between launching and landing of a saccade) and corresponding saccade amplitude (Velocity = S*[Saccade Amplitude]0.5). A comparison of the vertical scaling parameter (S) for up- and down-directed saccades showed that up-directed saccades tended to be slower than down-directed ones. Discussion To motivate future research, an ecological theory of asymmetric pre-saccadic inhibition was presented to explain the collection of vertical saccadic regularities. For example, given that the theory proposes strong inhibition for the releasing of reflexive down-directed prosaccades (cued by an attracting peripheral target below eye fixation), and weak inhibition for the releasing of up-directed prosaccades (cued by an attracting peripheral target above eye fixation), a prediction for future studies is longer reaction times for vertical anti-saccade cues above eye fixation. Finally, the present study with healthy individuals demonstrates a rationale for further study of vertical saccades in psychiatric disorders, as bio-markers for brain pathology.
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- Harold H. Greene
- Department of Psychology, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Brain Imaging Research Division, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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Cleret de Langavant L, Roze E, Petit A, Tressières B, Gharbi-Meliani A, Chaumont H, Michel PP, Bachoud-Lévi AC, Remy P, Edragas R, Lannuzel A. Annonaceae Consumption Worsens Disease Severity and Cognitive Deficits in Degenerative Parkinsonism. Mov Disord 2022; 37:2355-2366. [PMID: 36210778 PMCID: PMC10092620 DOI: 10.1002/mds.29222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Revised: 08/22/2022] [Accepted: 08/25/2022] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND High consumption of Annona muricata fruit has been previously identified as a risk factor for atypical parkinsonism in the French Caribbean islands. OBJECTIVE We tested whether consumption of Annonaceae products could worsen the clinical phenotype of patients with any form of degenerative parkinsonism. METHODS We analyzed neurological data from 180 Caribbean parkinsonian patients and specifically looked for dose effects of lifelong, cumulative Annonaceae consumption on cognitive performance. Using unsupervised clustering, we identified one cluster with mild/moderate symptoms (N = 102) and one with severe symptoms including cognitive impairment (N = 78). RESULTS We showed that even low cumulative consumption of fruits/juices (>0.2 fruit-years) or any consumption of herbal tea from Annonaceae worsen disease severity and cognitive deficits in degenerative parkinsonism including Parkinson's disease (OR fruits-juices: 3.76 [95% CI: 1.13-15.18]; OR herbal tea: 2.91 [95% CI: 1.34-6.56]). CONCLUSION We suggest that more restrictive public health preventive recommendations should be made regarding the consumption of Annonaceae products. © 2022 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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- Laurent Cleret de Langavant
- AP-HP, Hôpital Henri Mondor-Albert Chenevier, Centre de référence Maladie de Huntington, Service de Neurologie, Créteil, France.,Université Paris Est Créteil, INSERM U955, Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Equipe NeuroPsychologie Interventionnelle, Créteil, France.,Département d'Etudes Cognitives, École normale supérieure, PSL University, Paris, France
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- AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, DMU Neurosciences, Paris, France.,Faculté de Médecine de Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U 1127, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7225, Institut du Cerveau, Paris, France
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- AP-HP, Hôpital Henri Mondor-Albert Chenevier, Centre de référence Maladie de Huntington, Service de Neurologie, Créteil, France.,Université Paris Est Créteil, INSERM U955, Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Equipe NeuroPsychologie Interventionnelle, Créteil, France.,Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Guadeloupe, Service de Neurologie, Pointe-à-Pitre/Abymes, France
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- Centre d'Investigation Clinique Antilles Guyane, Inserm CIC 1424, Pointe-à-Pitre, France
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- Université Paris Est Créteil, INSERM U955, Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Equipe NeuroPsychologie Interventionnelle, Créteil, France.,Département d'Etudes Cognitives, École normale supérieure, PSL University, Paris, France
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- Faculté de Médecine de Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U 1127, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7225, Institut du Cerveau, Paris, France.,Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Guadeloupe, Service de Neurologie, Pointe-à-Pitre/Abymes, France.,Faculté de Médecine de l'Université des Antilles, Pointe-à-Pitre, France
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- Faculté de Médecine de Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U 1127, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7225, Institut du Cerveau, Paris, France
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- AP-HP, Hôpital Henri Mondor-Albert Chenevier, Centre de référence Maladie de Huntington, Service de Neurologie, Créteil, France.,Université Paris Est Créteil, INSERM U955, Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Equipe NeuroPsychologie Interventionnelle, Créteil, France.,Département d'Etudes Cognitives, École normale supérieure, PSL University, Paris, France
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- AP-HP, Hôpital Henri Mondor-Albert Chenevier, Centre de référence Maladie de Huntington, Service de Neurologie, Créteil, France.,Université Paris Est Créteil, INSERM U955, Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Equipe NeuroPsychologie Interventionnelle, Créteil, France.,Département d'Etudes Cognitives, École normale supérieure, PSL University, Paris, France
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Martinique, Service de Médecine Physique et Réadaptation, Fort-de-France, France
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- Faculté de Médecine de Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U 1127, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7225, Institut du Cerveau, Paris, France.,Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Guadeloupe, Service de Neurologie, Pointe-à-Pitre/Abymes, France.,Centre d'Investigation Clinique Antilles Guyane, Inserm CIC 1424, Pointe-à-Pitre, France.,Faculté de Médecine de l'Université des Antilles, Pointe-à-Pitre, France
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Ma W, Zhang M. The effects of age and sex on the incidence of multiple step saccades and corrective saccades. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:963557. [PMID: 36158551 PMCID: PMC9490418 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.963557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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ObjectiveAlthough multiple step saccades (MSS) is occasionally observed in healthy subjects, it is more pronounced in patients with aging-related neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Parkinson’s disease (PD). Thus, MSS has been treated as a complementary biomarker for diagnosing PD. Despite the aforementioned knowledge, several questions remain unexplored: (1) How does aging affect MSS? (2) Is there a sex difference in MSS? (3) Are there differences in MSS between vertical and horizontal saccades? (4) Are MSS and corrective saccade (CS) the same behavior? (5) How do age and sex affect CS? The objectives of the present study are to address these questions.MethodFour hundred eighty healthy participants were recruited to perform a visually guided reactive saccade task. Participants were divided into six groups according to their ages. Each group consisted of 40 male and 40 female participants. Eye movements were recorded with infrared eye trackers.ResultsThe incidence of MSS increased as a function of age, whereas the incidence of CS first increased with age 20–49 and then decreased with age 50–79. The incidences of both MSS and CS did not show sex differences. The incidence of MSS in vertical saccades was significantly higher than that in horizontal saccades, and their difference increased with increasing age, whereas the incidence of CS showed a reversed pattern.ConclusionAge and saccadic direction affect the occurrences of MSS and CS differently, indicating that MSS and CS are different saccadic behaviors. In addition, measuring saccades could reliably reflect the function of human’s brain which is affected by aging.
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Ma W, Li M, Wu J, Zhang Z, Jia F, Zhang M, Bergman H, Li X, Ling Z, Xu X. Multiple step saccades in simply reactive saccades could serve as a complementary biomarker for the early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:912967. [PMID: 35966789 PMCID: PMC9363762 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.912967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2022] [Accepted: 07/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Objective It has been argued that the incidence of multiple step saccades (MSS) in voluntary saccades could serve as a complementary biomarker for diagnosing Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, voluntary saccadic tasks are usually difficult for elderly subjects to complete. Therefore, task difficulties restrict the application of MSS measurements for the diagnosis of PD. The primary objective of the present study is to assess whether the incidence of MSS in simply reactive saccades could serve as a complementary biomarker for the early diagnosis of PD. Materials and methods There were four groups of human subjects: PD patients, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients, elderly healthy controls (EHCs), and young healthy controls (YHCs). There were four monkeys with subclinical hemi-PD induced by injection of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) through the unilateral internal carotid artery and three healthy control monkeys. The behavioral task was a visually guided reactive saccade. Results In a human study, the incidence of MSS was significantly higher in PD than in YHC, EHC, and MCI groups. In addition, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis could discriminate PD from the EHC and MCI groups, with areas under the ROC curve (AUCs) of 0.76 and 0.69, respectively. In a monkey study, while typical PD symptoms were absent, subclinical hemi-PD monkeys showed a significantly higher incidence of MSS than control monkeys when the dose of MPTP was greater than 0.4 mg/kg. Conclusion The incidence of MSS in simply reactive saccades could be a complementary biomarker for the early diagnosis of PD.
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- Wenbo Ma
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Division of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Division of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Division of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Division of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Division of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Division of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Cadre Medical Service, The First Clinical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Xuemei Li,
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- Senior Department of Neurosurgery, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
- Zhipei Ling,
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- Senior Department of Neurosurgery, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
- Xin Xu,
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Yep R, Smorenburg ML, Riek HC, Calancie OG, Kirkpatrick RH, Perkins JE, Huang J, Coe BC, Brien DC, Munoz DP. Interleaved Pro/Anti-saccade Behavior Across the Lifespan. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:842549. [PMID: 35663573 PMCID: PMC9159803 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.842549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The capacity for inhibitory control is an important cognitive process that undergoes dynamic changes over the course of the lifespan. Robust characterization of this trajectory, considering age continuously and using flexible modeling techniques, is critical to advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms that differ in healthy aging and neurological disease. The interleaved pro/anti-saccade task (IPAST), in which pro- and anti-saccade trials are randomly interleaved within a block, provides a simple and sensitive means of assessing the neural circuitry underlying inhibitory control. We utilized IPAST data collected from a large cross-sectional cohort of normative participants (n = 604, 5-93 years of age), standardized pre-processing protocols, generalized additive modeling, and change point analysis to investigate the effect of age on saccade behavior and identify significant periods of change throughout the lifespan. Maturation of IPAST measures occurred throughout adolescence, while subsequent decline began as early as the mid-20s and continued into old age. Considering pro-saccade correct responses and anti-saccade direction errors made at express (short) and regular (long) latencies was crucial in differentiating developmental and aging processes. We additionally characterized the effect of age on voluntary override time, a novel measure describing the time at which voluntary processes begin to overcome automated processes on anti-saccade trials. Drawing on converging animal neurophysiology, human neuroimaging, and computational modeling literature, we propose potential frontal-parietal and frontal-striatal mechanisms that may mediate the behavioral changes revealed in our analysis. We liken the models presented here to "cognitive growth curves" which have important implications for improved detection of neurological disease states that emerge during vulnerable windows of developing and aging.
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- Rachel Yep
- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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Kassavetis P, Kaski D, Anderson T, Hallett M. Eye Movement Disorders in Movement Disorders. Mov Disord Clin Pract 2022; 9:284-295. [PMID: 35402641 PMCID: PMC8974874 DOI: 10.1002/mdc3.13413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Revised: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Oculomotor assessment is an essential element of the neurological clinical examination and is particularly important when evaluating patients with movements disorders. Most of the brain is involved in oculomotor control, and thus many neurological conditions present with oculomotor abnormalities. Each of the different classes of eye movements and their features can provide important information that can facilitate differential diagnosis. This educational review presents a clinical approach to eye movement abnormalities that are commonly seen in parkinsonism, ataxia, dystonia, myoclonus, tremor, and chorea. In parkinsonism, subtle signs such as prominent square wave jerks, impaired vertical optokinetic nystagmus, and/or the "round the houses" sign suggest early progressive supranuclear gaze palsy before vertical gaze is restricted. In ataxia, nystagmus is common, but other findings such as oculomotor apraxia, supranuclear gaze palsy, impaired fixation, or saccadic pursuit can contribute to diagnoses such as ataxia with oculomotor apraxia, Niemann-Pick type C, or ataxia telangiectasia. Opsoclonus myoclonus and oculopalatal myoclonus present with characteristic phenomenology and are usually easy to identify. The oculomotor exam is usually unremarkable in isolated dystonia, but oculogyric crisis is a medical emergency and should be recognized and treated in a timely manner. Gaze impersistence in a patient with chorea suggests Huntington's disease, but in a patient with dystonia or tremor, Wilson's disease is more likely. Finally, functional eye movements can reinforce the clinical impression of a functional movement disorder.
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- Panagiotis Kassavetis
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of HealthBethesdaMarylandUSA
- Department of NeurologyUniversity of UtahSalt Lake CityUtahUSA
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- Centre for Vestibular and Behavioural Neurosciences, Department of Clinical and Movement NeurosciencesUniversity College London, Institute of NeurologyLondonUK
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- New Zealand Brain Research InstituteChristchurchNew Zealand
- Department of MedicineUniversity of OtagoChristchurchNew Zealand
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of HealthBethesdaMarylandUSA
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Smith DT. A horizontal–vertical anisotropy in spatial short-term memory. VISUAL COGNITION 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2022.2042446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Eye Movement Alterations in Post-COVID-19 Condition: A Proof-of-Concept Study. SENSORS 2022; 22:s22041481. [PMID: 35214383 PMCID: PMC8875414 DOI: 10.3390/s22041481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2022] [Revised: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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There is much evidence pointing out eye movement alterations in several neurological diseases. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first video-oculography study describing potential alterations of eye movements in the post-COVID-19 condition. Visually guided saccades, memory-guided saccades, and antisaccades in horizontal axis were measured. In all visual tests, the stimulus was deployed with a gap condition. The duration of the test was between 5 and 7 min per participant. A group of n=9 patients with the post-COVID-19 condition was included in this study. Values were compared with a group (n=9) of healthy volunteers whom the SARS-CoV-2 virus had not infected. Features such as centripetal and centrifugal latencies, success rates in memory saccades, antisaccades, and blinks were computed. We found that patients with the post-COVID-19 condition had eye movement alterations mainly in centripetal latency in visually guided saccades, the success rate in memory-guided saccade test, latency in antisaccades, and its standard deviation, which suggests the involvement of frontoparietal networks. Further work is required to understand these eye movements' alterations and their functional consequences.
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A link between synaptic plasticity and reorganization of brain activity in Parkinson's disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2013962118. [PMID: 33431672 PMCID: PMC7826364 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2013962118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The link between synaptic plasticity and reorganization of brain activity in health and disease remains a scientific challenge. We examined this question in Parkinson's disease (PD) where functional up-regulation of postsynaptic D2 receptors has been documented while its significance at the neural activity level has never been identified. We investigated cortico-subcortical plasticity in PD using the oculomotor system as a model to study reorganization of dopaminergic networks. This model is ideal because this system reorganizes due to frontal-to-parietal shifts in blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) activity. We tested the prediction that functional activation plasticity is associated with postsynaptic dopaminergic modifications by combining positron emission tomography/functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate striatal postsynaptic reorganization of dopamine D2 receptors (using 11C-raclopride) and neural activation in PD. We used covariance (connectivity) statistics at molecular and functional levels to probe striato-cortical reorganization in PD in on/off medication states to show that functional and molecular forms of reorganization are related. D2 binding across regions defined by prosaccades showed increased molecular connectivity between both caudate/putamen and hyperactive parietal eye fields in PD in contrast with frontal eye fields in controls, in line with the shift model. Concerning antisaccades, parietal-striatal connectivity dominated in again in PD, unlike frontal regions. Concerning molecular-BOLD covariance, a striking sign reversal was observed: PD patients showed negative frontal-putamen functional-molecular associations, consistent with the reorganization shift, in contrast with the positive correlations observed in controls. Follow-up analysis in off-medication PD patients confirmed the negative BOLD-molecular correlation. These results provide a link among BOLD responses, striato-cortical synaptic reorganization, and neural plasticity in PD.
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Parker S, Heathcote A, Finkbeiner M. Spatial Attention and Saccade Preparation Both Independently Contribute to the Discrimination of Oblique Orientations. Adv Cogn Psychol 2021; 16:329-343. [PMID: 33532009 PMCID: PMC7839255 DOI: 10.5709/acp-0307-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The extent to which the preparation of an eye movement and spatial attention both independently influence performance within the same task has long been debated. In a recent study that combined computational modelling with a dual-task, both saccade preparation and spatial cueing were revealed to separately contribute to the discrimination of targets oriented along the cardinal axis (horizontal and vertical). However, it remains to be seen whether and to what degree the same holds true when different perceptual stimuli are used. In the present study, we combined evidence accumulation modelling with a dual-task paradigm to assess the extent to which both saccade preparation and spatial attention contribute to the discrimination of full contrast targets oriented along the oblique axis (diagonal). The results revealed a separate and quantifiable contribution of both types of orienting to discrimination performance. Comparison of the magnitude of these effects to those obtained for cardinal orientation discrimination revealed the influence of saccade preparation and spatial attention to be six times smaller for oblique orientations. Importantly, the results revealed a separate and quantifiable contribution of both saccade preparation and spatial attention regardless of perceptual stimuli or stimulus contrast.
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- Samantha Parker
- Perception in Action Research Centre and Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia
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- Perception in Action Research Centre and Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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Tokushige SI, Matsuda S, Inomata-Terada S, Hamada M, Ugawa Y, Tsuji S, Terao Y. Premature saccades: A detailed physiological analysis. Clin Neurophysiol 2020; 132:63-76. [PMID: 33254099 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2020.09.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2020] [Revised: 08/04/2020] [Accepted: 09/07/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Premature saccades (PSs) are those made with latencies too short for the direction and amplitude to be specifically programmed. We sought to determine the minimum latency needed to establish accurate direction and amplitude, and observed what occurs when saccades are launched before this minimum latency. METHODS In Experiment 1, 249 normal subjects performed the gap saccade task with horizontal targets. In Experiment 2, 28 normal subjects performed the gap saccade task with the targets placed in eight directions. In Experiment 3, 38 normal subjects, 49 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), and 10 patients with spinocerebellar degeneration (SCD) performed the gap saccade task with horizontal targets. RESULTS In Experiment 1, it took 100 ms to accurately establish saccade amplitudes and directions. In Experiment 2, however, the latencies needed for accurate amplitude and direction establishment were both approximately 150 ms. In Experiment 3, the frequencies of PSs in patients with PD and SCD were lower than those of normal subjects. CONCLUSIONS The saccade amplitudes and directions are determined simultaneously, 100-150 ms after target presentation. PSs may result from prediction of the oncoming target direction or latent saccade activities in the superior colliculus. SIGNIFICANCE Saccade direction and amplitude are determined simultaneously.
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- Shin-Ichi Tokushige
- Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan; Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Kyorin University, 6-20-2, Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8611, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan; Department of Neurology, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, 5-9-22, Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0022, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan; Department of Medical Physiology, School of Medicine, Kyorin University, 6-20-2, Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8611, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of NeuroRegeneration, Fukushima Medical University, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Neurology, The University of Tokyo and International University of Health and Welfare, 4-3, Kozunomori, Narita-shi, Chiba-ken 286-8686, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan; Department of Medical Physiology, School of Medicine, Kyorin University, 6-20-2, Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8611, Japan.
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Chakraborty S, Dasgupta A, Routray A. Localization of eye Saccadic signatures in Electrooculograms using sparse representations with data driven dictionaries. Pattern Recognit Lett 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2017.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Meso AI, De Vai RL, Mahabeer A, Hills PJ. Evidence of inverted gravity-driven variation in predictive sensorimotor function. Eur J Neurosci 2020; 52:4803-4823. [PMID: 32730682 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2020] [Revised: 07/01/2020] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We move our eyes to place the fovea into the part of a viewed scene currently of interest. Recent evidence suggests that each human has signature patterns of eye movements like handwriting which depend on their sensitivity, allocation of attention and experience. Use of implicit knowledge of how earth's gravity influences object motion has been shown to aid dynamic perception. We used a projected ball-tracking task with a plain background offering no context cues to probe the effect of acquired experience about physical laws of gravitation on performance differences of 44 participants under a simulated gravity and an atypical (upward) antigravity condition. Performance measured by the unsigned difference between instantaneous eye and stimulus positions (RMSE) was consistently worse in the antigravity condition. In the vertical RMSE, participants took about 200 ms longer to improve to the best performance for antigravity compared to gravity trials. The antigravity condition produced a divergence of individual performance which was correlated with levels of questionnaire-based quantified traits of schizotypy but not control traits. Grouping participants by high or low traits revealed a negative relationship between schizotypy trait level and both initiation and maintenance of tracking, a result consistent with trait-related impoverished sensory prediction. The findings confirm for the first time that where cues enabling exact estimation of acceleration are unavailable, knowledge of gravity contributes to dynamic prediction improving motion processing. With acceleration expectations violated, we demonstrate that antigravity tracking could act as a multivariate diagnostic window into predictive brain function.
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- Andrew Isaac Meso
- Neuroimaging Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.,Institut de Neuroscience de la Timone, Team Invibe, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, 13005, France.,Psychology & Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Group, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK
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- Psychology & Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Group, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK
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- Psychology & Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Group, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK
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- Psychology & Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Group, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK
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Mack DJ, Heinzel S, Pilotto A, Stetz L, Lachenmaier S, Gugolz L, Srulijes K, Eschweiler GW, Sünkel U, Berg D, Ilg UJ. The effect of age and gender on anti-saccade performance: Results from a large cohort of healthy aging individuals. Eur J Neurosci 2020; 52:4165-4184. [PMID: 32575168 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2019] [Revised: 06/08/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
Abstract
By 2050, the global population of people aged 65 years or older will triple. While this is accompanied with an increasing burden of age-associated diseases, it also emphasizes the need to understand the effects of healthy aging on cognitive processes. One such effect is a general slowing of processing speed, which is well documented in many domains. The execution of anti-saccades depends on a well-established brain-wide network ranging from various cortical areas and basal ganglia through the superior colliculus down to the brainstem saccade generators. To clarify the consequences of healthy aging as well as gender on the execution of reflexive and voluntary saccades, we measured a large sample of healthy, non-demented individuals (n = 731, aged 51-84 years) in the anti-saccade task. Age affected various aspects of saccade performance: The number of valid trials decreased with age. Error rate, saccadic reaction times (SRTs), and variability in saccade accuracy increased with age, whereas anti-saccade costs, accuracy, and peak velocity of anti-saccades and direction errors were not affected by age. Gender affected SRTs independent of age and saccade type with male participants having overall shorter SRTs. Our rigid and solid statistical testing using linear mixed-effect models provide evidence for a uniform slowing of processing speed independent of the actually performed eye movement. Our data do not support the assumption of a specific deterioration of frontal lobe functions with aging.
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- David J Mack
- Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Department of Neurodegeneration, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurodegeneration, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Neurodegeneration, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurodegeneration, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurodegeneration, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurodegeneration, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurodegeneration, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany.,Department of Geriatrics and Clinic of Geriatric Rehabilitation, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Geriatric Center, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurodegeneration, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurodegeneration, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Nij Bijvank J, Petzold A, Coric D, Tan H, Uitdehaag B, Balk L, van Rijn L. Saccadic delay in multiple sclerosis: A quantitative description. Vision Res 2020; 168:33-41. [DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2020.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2019] [Revised: 01/02/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hanuška J, Dušek P, Rusz J, Ulmanová O, Burgetová A, Růžička E. Eye movement abnormalities are associated with brainstem atrophy in Wilson disease. Neurol Sci 2020; 41:1097-1103. [DOI: 10.1007/s10072-019-04225-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2019] [Accepted: 12/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Recent applications of eye tracking for diagnosis, prognosis and follow-up of therapy in age-related neurological or psychological deficits have been reviewed. The review is focused on active aging, neurodegeneration and cognitive impairments. The potential impacts and current limitations of using characterizing features of eye movements and pupillary responses (oculometrics) as objective biomarkers in the context of aging are discussed. A closer look into the findings, especially with respect to cognitive impairments, suggests that eye tracking is an invaluable technique to study hidden aspects of aging that have not been revealed using any other noninvasive tool. Future research should involve a wider variety of oculometrics, in addition to saccadic metrics and pupillary responses, including nonlinear and combinatorial features as well as blink- and fixation-related metrics to develop biomarkers to trace age-related irregularities associated with cognitive and neural deficits.
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- Ramtin Z Marandi
- Department of Health Science & Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg E 9220, Denmark
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- Department of Health Science & Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg E 9220, Denmark
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Semi tandem base of support degrades both saccadic gaze control and postural stability particularly in older adults. Neurosci Lett 2019; 705:227-234. [PMID: 30849404 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2019.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Revised: 03/03/2019] [Accepted: 03/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Differences in the postural stabilization of older and young adults have been shown to be task-dependent on both visual and postural challenges; however, the gaze behavior during such tasks has rarely been examined. This study investigated the effects of horizontal and vertical saccades on gaze control, center of pressure (CoP) and head displacement of young and older adults on different bases of support. Ten young adults (20.7 ± 3.4 years) and ten older adults (71.6 ± 3.1 years) remained in an upright stance on a force platform wearing an eye-head tracker device. The participants performed 30-second trials according to two bases of support (feet apart and semi-tandem) and three gaze behavior (fixation, horizontal and vertical saccades) conditions. Older adults presented greater CoP amplitude (p < 0.002) and velocity (p < 0.001) (ML axis), and higher head amplitude (ML) (p < 0.002) than young adults during the semi tandem base. Head displacement of both groups presented higher velocity (ML axis) during horizontal (p < 0.001) and vertical saccades (p < 0.01) than the fixation task only on the semi tandem base. There was higher number of fixations (p < 0.001) and lower mean fixation duration (p < 0.001) on the semi-tandem base (p < 0.05). The results showed higher gaze latency variability in vertical saccades for older adults (p < 0.01). Challenging postural tasks may alter postural adjustments and gaze control during saccadic tasks. Particularly, the greater postural instability of older adults increased the gaze latency variability during saccadic tasks, suggesting some deterioration in the posture-gaze relation with aging.
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Irving EL, Lillakas L. Difference between vertical and horizontal saccades across the human lifespan. Exp Eye Res 2019; 183:38-45. [DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2018.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Revised: 08/22/2018] [Accepted: 08/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Matiz A, Crescentini C, Fabbro A, Budai R, Bergamasco M, Fabbro F. Spontaneous eye movements during focused-attention mindfulness meditation. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0210862. [PMID: 30677056 PMCID: PMC6345481 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2018] [Accepted: 01/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Oculometric measures have been proven to be useful markers of mind-wandering during visual tasks such as reading. However, little is known about ocular activity during mindfulness meditation, a mental practice naturally involving mind-wandering episodes. In order to explore this issue, we extracted closed-eyes ocular movement measurements via a covert technique (EEG recordings) from expert meditators during two repetitions of a 7-minute mindfulness meditation session, focusing on the breath, and two repetitions of a 7-minute instructed mind-wandering task. Power spectral density was estimated on both the vertical and horizontal components of eye movements. The results show a significantly smaller average amplitude of eye movements in the delta band (1–4 Hz) during mindfulness meditation than instructed mind-wandering. Moreover, participants’ meditation expertise correlated significantly with this average amplitude during both tasks, with more experienced meditators generally moving their eyes less than less experienced meditators. These findings suggest the potential use of this measure to detect mind-wandering episodes during mindfulness meditation and to assess meditation performance.
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- Alessio Matiz
- PERCRO Laboratory, Scuola Superiore “Sant’Anna”, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Society, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
- Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, University-Hospital “S. Maria della Misericordia”, Udine, Italy
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- PERCRO Laboratory, Scuola Superiore “Sant’Anna”, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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Hanuška J, Rusz J, Bezdicek O, Ulmanová O, Bonnet C, Dušek P, Ibarburu V, Nikolai T, Sieger T, Šonka K, Růžička E. Eye movements in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder: High antisaccade error rate reflects prefrontal cortex dysfunction. J Sleep Res 2018; 28:e12742. [DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2018] [Revised: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 06/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Jaromír Hanuška
- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic
- Department of Neurosurgery Na Homolce Hospital Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic
- Department of Circuit Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic
- AP HP, Neurology Department Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital Paris France
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic
- Department of Radiology Charles University, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic
- Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic
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Jost J, Havlisova H, Bilkova Z, Stefankova Z, Zemkova L. Adolescents with Persistent History of Maltreatment Fail in Antisaccadic Task. JOURNAL OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT TRAUMA 2018; 11:163-171. [PMID: 32318147 PMCID: PMC7163873 DOI: 10.1007/s40653-017-0195-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The antisaccadic task is sensitive to what is called frontal dysfunction, i.e. dysfunction of the frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex which are the basis for a wide range of symptoms. The present study examined saccadic eye movements in adolescents with persistent history of maltreatment. Participants included 17 female subjects with maltreatment history. The control group consisted of 54 typically developing female subjects. All participants were administered Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and saccadic eye movement tests. CBCL showed significant differences between the maltreated and control groups. The prosaccadic test revealed insignificant results between both groups. The antisaccadic test revealed a highly significant difference (longer latencies, more prosaccadic mistakes in the group of maltreated subjects). Antisaccadic eye movements may be regarded as a possible indicator of persistent maltreatment and following emotional and behavioral problems and may therefore enhance diagnostic methods.
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- Jiri Jost
- Department of Special Education, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Education, Dukelska 9, CZ 370 01 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Special Education, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Special Education, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Special Education, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of English Studies, Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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Further evidence for a distinctive atypical degenerative parkinsonism in the Caribbean: A new cluster in the French West Indian Island of Martinique. J Neurol Sci 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2018.02.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Becerra-García R, García-Bermúdez R, Joya-Caparrós G, Fernández-Higuera A, Velázquez-Rodríguez C, Velázquez-Mariño M, Cuevas-Beltrán F, García-Lagos F, Rodráguez-Labrada R. Data mining process for identification of non-spontaneous saccadic movements in clinical electrooculography. Neurocomputing 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2016.10.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Voges K, Wu B, Post L, Schonewille M, De Zeeuw CI. Mechanisms underlying vestibulo-cerebellar motor learning in mice depend on movement direction. J Physiol 2017; 595:5301-5326. [PMID: 28586131 PMCID: PMC5538199 DOI: 10.1113/jp274346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS Directionality, inherent to movements, has behavioural and neuronal correlates. Direction of vestibular stimulation determines motor learning efficiency. Vestibulo-ocular reflex gain-increase correlates with Purkinje cell simple spike potentiation. The locus of neural correlates for vestibulo-ocular reflex adaptation is paradigm specific. ABSTRACT Compensatory eye movements elicited by head rotation, also known as vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR), can be adapted with the use of visual feedback. The cerebellum is essential for this type of movement adaptation, although its neuronal correlates remain to be clarified. In the present study, we show that the direction of vestibular input determines the magnitude of eye movement adaptation induced by mismatched visual input in mice, with larger changes during contraversive head rotation. Moreover, the location of the neural correlate of this changed behaviour depends on the type of paradigm. Gain-increase paradigms induce increased simple spike (SS) activity in ipsilateral cerebellar Purkinje cells (PC), which is in line with eye movements triggered by optogenetic PC activation. By contrast, gain-decrease paradigms do not induce changes in SS activity, indicating that the murine vestibulo-cerebellar cortical circuitry is optimally designed to enhance ipsiversive eye movements.
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- Kai Voges
- Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,SINAPSE, Singapore National University, Singapore
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- Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Cachinero-Torre A, Díaz-Pulido B, Asúnsolo-Del-Barco Á. Relationship of the Lateral Rectus Muscle, the Supraorbital Nerve, and Binocular Coordination with Episodic Tension-Type Headaches Frequently Associated with Visual Effort. PAIN MEDICINE 2017; 18:969-979. [PMID: 28122939 DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnw292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Objective To study the relationship between tension-type headaches and the oculomotor system in terms of binocular coordination, mechanosensitivity of the supraorbital nerve, and myofascial trigger points in the lateral rectus muscle, assessing the influence of visual effort caused by using a computer at work. Design Observational study with blind evaluation of the response variable. Methods Two groups were compared: 19 subjects with tension-type headaches and 16 healthy subjects, both exposed to computer use at work. A blinded assessor conducted three tests: measurement of the supraorbital nerve pressure pain threshold using a pressure algometer, evaluation of myofascial trigger points of the lateral rectus using the verbal numerical scale, and assessment of binocular coordination in smooth pursuit eye movements using an innovative video-oculography system. Tests were performed before work began and four hours later, and subjects in the headache group were examined when they presented a headache score of less than or equal to 3 on the verbal numerical scale. Results The headache group presented a greater sensitivity of the supraorbital nerve and greater local and referred pain of the lateral rectus ( P < 0.05). Visual effort caused a significant worsening of these variables in both groups. However, binocular coordination after visual effort was only significantly affected in the headache group ( P < 0.05), primarily in horizontal movements. Conclusions The finding of a higher alteration of the sensitivity of the supraorbital nerve, the myofascial trigger points of the lateral rectus, binocular coordination, and the significant influence of visual effort in patients with tension-type headaches suggest a new clinical perspective for problems related to tension-type headaches.
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- Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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Lemos J, Pereira D, Almendra L, Rebelo D, Patrício M, Castelhano J, Cunha G, Januário C, Cunha L, Freire A, Castelo-Branco M. Distinct functional properties of the vertical and horizontal saccadic network in Health and Parkinson's disease: An eye-tracking and fMRI study. Brain Res 2016; 1648:469-484. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2016.07.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2016] [Revised: 07/19/2016] [Accepted: 07/20/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Slovák M, Sieger T, Bonnet C, Ulmanová O, Hanuška J, Růžička E, Serranová T. Antisaccades and vergence abnormalities in functional movement disorders: A video-oculographic study. Mov Disord 2016; 31:1072-3. [DOI: 10.1002/mds.26641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2016] [Revised: 03/08/2016] [Accepted: 03/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Matěj Slovák
- Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience; Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital; Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience; Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital; Prague Czech Republic
- Dept. of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering; Czech Technical University; Prague Czech Republic
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- Département des Maladies du Système Nerveux, Centre Inter-Régional de Coordination de la Maladie de Parkinson; Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, APHP; Paris France
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- Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience; Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital; Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience; Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital; Prague Czech Republic
- Department of Neurosurgery; Na Homolce Hospital; Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience; Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital; Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience; Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital; Prague Czech Republic
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Ansay C, Manto M, Camut S, van Dun K, Mariën P, Habas C, Bodranghien F. The CAM test: a novel tool to quantify the decline in vertical upper limb pointing movements with ageing. Aging Clin Exp Res 2016; 28:221-30. [PMID: 26194423 DOI: 10.1007/s40520-015-0407-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2014] [Accepted: 07/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIM Although upper limb movements in the vertical plane are very commonly used during the activities of daily life, there is still a lack of a reliable and easy standardized procedure to quantify them. In particular, ageing is associated with a decline in performances of coordinated movements, but a tool to quantify this decline is missing. METHODS We created a novel portable test called counting arm movement test (CAM test). Participants were asked to perform fast and accurate successive pointing movements towards two fixed targets (mechanical counters) located in a vertical plane in the parasagittal axis during three different time periods (15, 30, 45 s). Each upper limb was assessed separately. The test was evaluated in a group of 63 healthy subjects (mean age ± SD 49.1 ± 19.8 years; F/M 33/30; range 18-87 years). RESULTS Motor performances (number of clicks) significantly decreased as a function of age for both the dominant side (age effect; linear regression; p < 0.0001 for 15, 30 and 45 s) and the non-dominant side (linear regression; p < 0.0001 for 15, 30 and 45 s). Performances on the dominant and non-dominant side were linearly correlated with the time periods (p < 0.0001 on both sides). The symmetry index (ratio of performance on the dominant side divided by performance on the non-dominant side) was correlated linearly and positively with the duration of the test (y = 0.002x + 1.053; p = 0.0056). We also found a linear relationship between upper limb length and motor performance on the non-dominant side for 15 s (p = 0.023) and 45 s (p = 0.041). The test was characterized by a very high correlation between the results obtained by two investigators during two successive sessions in a subgroup of 7 subjects (Pearson product moment correlation: 0.989 for the dominant side and 0.988 for the non-dominant side). CONCLUSION The CAM test appears as a robust and low cost tool to quantify upper limb pointing movements. In particular, the test strongly discriminates the effects of age upon motor performances in upper limbs. Future studies are now required to establish the sensitivity, specificity and reliability of this procedure in selected neuromuscular or skeletal diseases affecting the elderly.
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- Caroline Ansay
- Unité d'Etude du Mouvement, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, ULB-Erasme, 808 Route de Lennik, 1070, Brussels, Belgium.,HELB Ilya Prigogine, Campus Erasme, Route de Lennik, Brussels, Belgium
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- Unité d'Etude du Mouvement, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, ULB-Erasme, 808 Route de Lennik, 1070, Brussels, Belgium. .,HELB Ilya Prigogine, Campus Erasme, Route de Lennik, Brussels, Belgium.
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- Unité d'Etude du Mouvement, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, ULB-Erasme, 808 Route de Lennik, 1070, Brussels, Belgium.,HELB Ilya Prigogine, Collège d'ergothérapie de Bruxelles(CEbxl), Campus Erasme, Route de Lennik, Brussels, Belgium
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- Clinical and Experimental Neurolinguistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Clinical and Experimental Neurolinguistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.,ZNA Middelheim General Hospital, Lindendreef 1, Antwerp, Belgium
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- CHNO, Hôpital des Quinze Vingts, Rue de Charenton, Paris, France
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- Unité d'Etude du Mouvement, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, ULB-Erasme, 808 Route de Lennik, 1070, Brussels, Belgium
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Kang S, Kim US. Normative data of videonystagmography in young healthy adults under 40 years old. KOREAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY 2015; 29:126-30. [PMID: 25829830 PMCID: PMC4369515 DOI: 10.3341/kjo.2015.29.2.126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2014] [Accepted: 09/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Purpose The purpose of this study was to establish a set of normative data values for saccade movements using videonystagmography and to evaluate the effects of manual correction on this data. Methods We examined 25 healthy subjects (9 men and 16 women). All tests were carried out by one well-instructed physician. Errors such as the wrong detection of the inflection point, missing movement, and prediction occurred during some tests. Thus, the same physician manually corrected the data by deleting error data from row results. Results We established a set of normative data for horizontal saccade movements (amplitude size 15 and 30 degrees) for mean peak velocity, latency, and accuracy. Manual correction only impacted latency and accuracy at 30 degrees horizontal, which is likely related to possible errors during the test. Conclusions The present study provides clinically useful videonystagmography-based normative data for clinicians regarding saccade movements in Korean individuals.
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- Sunah Kang
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kim's Eye Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kim's Eye Hospital, Seoul, Korea. ; Department of Ophthalmology, Konyang University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea
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Bonnet C, Rusz J, Megrelishvili M, Sieger T, Matoušková O, Okujava M, Brožová H, Nikolai T, Hanuška J, Kapianidze M, Mikeladze N, Botchorishvili N, Khatiashvili I, Janelidze M, Serranová T, Fiala O, Roth J, Bergquist J, Jech R, Rivaud-Péchoux S, Gaymard B, Růžička E. Eye movements in ephedrone-induced parkinsonism. PLoS One 2014; 9:e104784. [PMID: 25117825 PMCID: PMC4130591 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2014] [Accepted: 07/16/2014] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Patients with ephedrone parkinsonism (EP) show a complex, rapidly progressive, irreversible, and levodopa non-responsive parkinsonian and dystonic syndrome due to manganese intoxication. Eye movements may help to differentiate parkinsonian syndromes providing insights into which brain networks are affected in the underlying disease, but they have never been systematically studied in EP. Horizontal and vertical eye movements were recorded in 28 EP and compared to 21 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, and 27 age- and gender-matched healthy subjects using standardized oculomotor tasks with infrared videooculography. EP patients showed slow and hypometric horizontal saccades, an increased occurrence of square wave jerks, long latencies of vertical antisaccades, a high error rate in the horizontal antisaccade task, and made more errors than controls when pro- and antisaccades were mixed. Based on oculomotor performance, a direct differentiation between EP and PD was possible only by the velocity of horizontal saccades. All remaining metrics were similar between both patient groups. EP patients present extensive oculomotor disturbances probably due to manganese-induced damage to the basal ganglia, reflecting their role in oculomotor system.
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- Cecilia Bonnet
- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Circuit Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology, S. Khechinashvili University Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia; Institute of Medical Research, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; Institute of Pharmacology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology, S. Khechinashvili University Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Department of Neurology, S. Khechinashvili University Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Department of Neurology, S. Khechinashvili University Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Department of Neurology, S. Khechinashvili University Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Department of Neurology, S. Khechinashvili University Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Analytical Chemistry and Neurochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Biomedical Center and SciLife Lab, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- CRICM UPMC/INSERM UMR_S975, CNRS UMR7225, ICM, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France; Pierre et Marie Curie Paris-6 University, Paris, France
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- CRICM UPMC/INSERM UMR_S975, CNRS UMR7225, ICM, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France; Pierre et Marie Curie Paris-6 University, Paris, France
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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When do you look where you look? A visual field asymmetry. Vision Res 2014; 102:33-40. [PMID: 25094053 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2014.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Revised: 07/23/2014] [Accepted: 07/27/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Pre-saccadic fixation durations associated with saccades directed in different directions were compared in three endogenous-attention oriented saccadic scanning tasks (i.e. visual search and scene viewing). Pre-saccadic fixation durations were consistently briefer before the execution of upward saccades, than downward saccades. Saccades also had a higher probability of being directed upwards than downwards. Pre-saccadic fixation durations were symmetric and longer for horizontally-directed saccades. The vertical visual field asymmetry in pre-saccadic fixation durations reflects an influence of factors not directly related to currently fixated elements. The ability to predict pre-saccadic fixation durations is important for computational modelling of real-time saccadic scanning, and the findings make a case for including directional constraints in computational modelling of when the eyes move.
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