Anticipatory models in gaze control: a developmental model.

Full Abstract

Infants gradually learn to predict the motion of moving targets and change from a strategy that mainly depends on saccades to one that depends on anticipatory control of smooth pursuit. A model is described that combines three types of mechanisms for gaze control that develops in a way similar to infants. Initially, gaze control is purely reactive, but as the anticipatory models become more accurate, the gain of the pursuit will increase and lead to a larger fraction of smooth eye movements. Finally, a third system learns to predict changes in target motion, which will lead to fast retuning of the parameters in the anticipatory model.

Author information

Author/s: Balkenius, Christian (C); Johansson, Birger (B);

Affiliation: Lund University Cognitive Science, Kungshuset, Lundagård, 222 22 Lund, Sweden. christian.balkenius(-atsign-)lucs.lu.se

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Cognitive processing (Cogn Process), published in Germany. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2007-Sep; vol 8 (issue 3) : pp 167-74

Dates: Created 2007/08/08; Completed 2007/11/20;

PMID: 17440759, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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