A fundamental problem in motor control is the coordination of complementary movement types to achieve a common goal. As a common example, humans view moving objects through coordinated pursuit and saccadic eye movements. Pursuit is initiated and continuously controlled by retinal image velocity. During pursuit, eye position may lag behind the target. This can be compensated by the discrete execution of a catch-up saccade. The decision to trigger a saccade is influenced by both position and velocity errors and the timing of saccades can be highly variable. The observed distributions of saccade occurrence and trigger time remain poorly understood and this decision process remains imprecisely quantified. Here we propose a predictive, probabilistic model explaining the decision to trigger saccades during pursuit to foveate moving targets. In this model, expected position error and its associated uncertainty are predicted through Bayesian inference across noisy, delayed sensory observations (Kalman filtering). This probabilistic prediction is used to estimate the confidence that a saccade is needed (quantified through log-probability ratio), triggering a saccade upon accumulating to a fixed threshold. The model qualitatively explains behavioural observations on the probability of occurrence and trigger time distributions of saccades during pursuit over a range of target motion trajectories. Furthermore, this model makes novel predictions about the influence of sensory uncertainty and target motion parameters on saccade decisions. We suggest that this predictive, confidence-based decision making strategy represents a fundamental principle for the probabilistic neural control of coordinated movements.


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    Titel :

    Confidence in predicted position error explains saccadic decisions during pursuit



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020-01-01


    Anmerkungen:

    Journal of Neurophysiology, (2020)



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629



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