PMID- 16242168 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20061204 LR - 20240312 IS - 0042-6989 (Print) IS - 0042-6989 (Linking) VI - 46 IP - 6-7 DP - 2006 Mar TI - The initial ocular following responses elicited by apparent-motion stimuli: reversal by inter-stimulus intervals. PG - 979-92 AB - Transient apparent-motion stimuli, consisting of single 1/4-wavelength steps applied to square-wave gratings lacking the fundamental ("missing fundamental stimulus") and to sinusoidal gratings, were used to elicit ocular following responses (OFRs) in humans. As previously reported [Sheliga, B. M., Chen, K. J., FitzGibbon, E. J., & Miles, F. A. (2005). Initial ocular following in humans: a response to first-order motion energy. Vision Research, in press], the earliest OFRs were strongly dependent on the motion of the major Fourier component, consistent with early spatio-temporal filtering prior to motion detection, as in the well-known energy model of motion analysis. Introducing inter-stimulus intervals (ISIs) of 10-200 ms, during which the screen was gray with the same mean luminance, reversed the initial direction of the OFR, the peak reversed responses (with ISIs of 20-40 ms) being substantially greater than the non-reversed responses (with an ISI of 0 ms). When the mean luminance was reduced to scotopic levels, reversals now occurred only with ISIs > or=60 ms and the peak reversed responses (with ISIs of 60-100 ms) were substantially smaller than the non-reversed responses (with an ISI of 0 ms). These findings are consistent with the idea that initial OFRs are mediated by first-order motion-energy-sensing mechanisms that receive a visual input whose temporal impulse response function is strongly biphasic in photopic conditions and almost monophasic in scotopic conditions. FAU - Sheliga, B M AU - Sheliga BM AD - Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. bms@lsr.nei.nih.gov FAU - Chen, K J AU - Chen KJ FAU - FitzGibbon, E J AU - FitzGibbon EJ FAU - Miles, F A AU - Miles FA LA - eng GR - Z01 EY000153-24/Intramural NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural DEP - 20051018 PL - England TA - Vision Res JT - Vision research JID - 0417402 SB - IM MH - Contrast Sensitivity/physiology MH - Dark Adaptation/physiology MH - Eye Movements/*physiology MH - Fourier Analysis MH - Humans MH - Lighting MH - Motion Perception/*physiology MH - Pattern Recognition, Visual/physiology MH - Photic Stimulation/methods MH - Psychomotor Performance MH - Psychophysics PMC - PMC2430525 MID - NIHMS51218 EDAT- 2005/10/26 09:00 MHDA- 2006/12/09 09:00 PMCR- 2008/06/17 CRDT- 2005/10/26 09:00 PHST- 2005/07/11 00:00 [received] PHST- 2005/08/25 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2005/09/02 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2005/10/26 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2006/12/09 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2005/10/26 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2008/06/17 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0042-6989(05)00451-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.visres.2005.09.001 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Vision Res. 2006 Mar;46(6-7):979-92. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.09.001. Epub 2005 Oct 18.