Saccades (M1) Flashcards
What is the stimulus for saccades?
displacement from the fovea
Which model of ocular direction sensing has proprioceptive information from EOMs going into direction centers?
inflow model
Which eye directions are “sensed”? 1. Which are “cortically computed”? 2
- ocular and oculocentric
2. egocentric
What is the normal percent of saccades/fixations that are regressive?
10-15%
What is a saccade that has too long of a pulse called? 1. Too short of a pulse? 2
- hypermetric saccade
2. hypometric saccade
When are saccades slower than normal (don’t follow main sequence)?
- infants
- alcohol use
- voluntary control
- fatigue
- disease: MS, stoke, tumor, aneurysm
What are eye movements that get you where you are supposed to be and make up for inaccurate saccades called?
glissades
What is the percentage of total reading time taken up by eye movements typically?
no greater than 10%
What is an elevation in the visual threshold before, during, and after a saccade called? 1. What does this prevent? 2
- saccadic suppression
2. prevents smearing of retinal image
Do large saccades (greater than 20deg) usually overshoot or undershoot? 1. What corrects for this? 2
- undershoot
2. corrective saccade (not glissade)
What is a large right to left saccadic eye movement that shifts eyes from near the end of one line to near the beginning of the next line of text called? 1. When does it usually begin? 2 .When does it end? 3
- return-sweep saccade
- 6 characters from end of one line
- 6th or so character of next line
What is a saccade directed from right to left (backwards) on the same line of text called?
regressive saccade
What is it called when the patient points to an object that they are receiving visual info from but they cannot see their hand? 1. How does this present during an EOM paresis? 2
- pastpointing
2. when only using paretic eye, overshoot location with point
During forced duction of the eye does the image appear to move in the positive, negative or neither direction? 1. Does this provide evidence for the outflow or inflow model of ocular direction sensing? 2
- negative direction
2. outflow bc if inflow then would appear to be no movement
What is responsible for the lack of blurring during a saccade?
saccadic omission
When should abnormal saccades be referred?
- suspect brain lesion (imaging)
2. kids (eye movement training)
What is the length of time (usually in ms) that the eye pauses or remains fixated on a word called? 1. What is the numerical average? 2
- fixation duration
2. 225ms (depends on text)
For reading, when does the number of fixations per portion of text increase?
- increased difficulty of material
2. poor readers
What causes the greatest changes in latency period?
providing subjects with prior info about movement of the target (decreases it)