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Article Dans Une Revue European Journal of Neuroscience Année : 2018

Asymmetries of the visual system and their influence on visual performance and oculomotor dynamics

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Our representation of the visual field is not homogenous. There are differences in resolution not only between the fovea and regions eccentric to it, but also between the nasal and temporal hemiretinae, that can be traced to asymmetric distributions of photoreceptors and ganglion cells. We review evidence for differences in visual and attentional processing and oculomotor behaviour that can be traced to asymmetries of the visual system, mainly emphasising nasal‐temporal asymmetries. Asymmetries in the visual system manifest in various measures, in basic psychophysical tests of visual performance, attentional processing, choice behaviour, saccadic peak velocity, and latencies. Nasal‐temporal asymmetries on saccadic latency seem primarily to occur for express saccades. Neural asymmetries between the upper and lower hemifields are strong and cause corresponding differences in performance between the hemifields. There are interesting individual differences in asymmetric processing which seem to be related to the strength of eye dominance. These neurophysiological asymmetries and the corresponding asymmetries in visual performance and oculomotor behaviour can strongly influence experimental results in vision and must be considered during experimental design and the interpretation of results.
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Ómar I Jóhannesson, Jérôme Tagu, Árni Kristjánsson. Asymmetries of the visual system and their influence on visual performance and oculomotor dynamics. European Journal of Neuroscience, 2018, 48 (11), pp.3426-3445. ⟨10.1111/ejn.14225⟩. ⟨hal-03157767⟩
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