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Eye-hand coordination during a precision grasping and placement task in children with a history of amblyopia 弱视病史儿童在精确抓握和放置任务中的眼手协调。

IF 1.4 4区心理学 Q4 NEUROSCIENCES

Vision Research

Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2025.108700

Ewa Niechwiej-Szwedo , Susana Wu , Deborah Giaschi , Linda Colpa , Agnes M.F. Wong , Lisa Christian

Eye-hand coordination is a key aspect of visuomotor control essential for performing most daily activities. Disruption in visuomotor control, characterized by slower arm movements and grasping errors, has been documented in children with amblyopia. This study aimed to characterize the effects of amblyopia on the temporal pattern of eye and hand coordination during the performance of a task that involves reaching, precision grasping, and placement. The study recruited 28 children with a history of amblyopia and 56 typically developing peers (age range 6–14 years). Children performed a bead-threading task while their eyes and hand movements were recorded concurrently. As hypothesized, children with amblyopia demonstrated poorer task performance, with greater deficits for the object manipulation compared to the reaching (transport) components. In comparison to their peers with normal vision, children with amblyopia had shorter reaction time for initiating eye and hand movement, longer object fixation duration to guide grasp execution and object placement, and lower eye-hand latency difference for the second movement indicating that the hand movement preceded eye initiation. These results suggest that children with amblyopia have poorer motor planning ability, which impacts movement execution. Longer fixations during object manipulations indicate that more time is required to transform the noisy visual input into a motor response. Overall, the study adds to the growing body of evidence highlighting deficits in visuomotor control in amblyopia.

眼手协调是视觉运动控制的一个关键方面，对执行大多数日常活动至关重要。视觉运动控制的中断，以手臂运动缓慢和抓握错误为特征，已经在弱视儿童中得到证实。本研究旨在描述弱视在执行涉及伸手、精确抓取和放置的任务时对眼手协调的时间模式的影响。这项研究招募了28名有弱视病史的儿童和56名正常发育的同龄人（年龄在6-14岁之间）。孩子们在执行穿线任务时，他们的眼睛和手的运动同时被记录下来。正如假设的那样，弱视儿童表现出较差的任务表现，与到达（运输）部分相比，他们在物体操作方面的缺陷更大。与视力正常的同龄人相比，弱视儿童启动眼手动作的反应时间更短，引导抓握执行和物体放置的物体注视时间更长，第二次动作的眼手潜伏期差更小，说明手动作先于眼手动作。这些结果表明弱视儿童的运动计划能力较差，影响运动执行。在物体操作过程中，长时间的注视表明需要更多的时间将嘈杂的视觉输入转化为运动反应。总的来说，这项研究增加了越来越多的证据，强调了弱视在视觉运动控制方面的缺陷。

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A comparison of density-based and feature-based texture boundary segmentation 基于密度和基于特征的纹理边界分割的比较

IF 1.4 4区心理学 Q4 NEUROSCIENCES

Vision Research

Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2025.108695

Christopher DiMattina

Previous studies have demonstrated that density of texture elements is an important perceptual aspect of textural appearance, and can enable texture segmentation in the absence of other cues. We compared segmentation thresholds for two kinds of second-order boundaries comprised of two species of micropatterns (e.g., horizontal and vertical Gabors): (1) Feature boundaries, with the same number of total micropatterns on opposite sides but different numbers of each micropattern species within each side, and (2) Density boundaries, with different numbers of total micropatterns on opposite sides, but with the same number of both micropattern species within each side. Contrary to the predictions of a standard late-pooling Filter-Rectify-Filter (FRF) model in which different micropattern specific first-order channels are analyzed by different second stage filters before pooling, we observed lower segmentation thresholds for density boundaries than feature boundaries. This suggests that density boundaries may be detected by a different, early-pooling mechanism. In a second experiment, we considered how two species of micropatterns combine for boundary segmentation. When two single-micropattern-species density boundaries are superimposed in-phase to form a new density boundary, the boundaries formed by each micropattern species combine via probability summation. By contrast, when two single-micropattern-species density boundaries are superimposed in opposite-phase to form a feature boundary, segmentation performance is worse than for either single-micropattern-species boundary alone. We conclude that the mechanisms for density-based texture segmentation are not identical to the mechanisms for feature-based segmentation and that density-sensitive mechanisms most likely integrate across multiple first-order filters responsive to different micropattern species.

先前的研究表明，纹理元素的密度是纹理外观的一个重要感知方面，可以在没有其他线索的情况下实现纹理分割。我们比较了由两种微图案组成的两种二级边界（如水平Gabors和垂直Gabors）的分割阈值：(1)特征边界，相对侧微图案总数相同，但每侧微图案种数不同；(2)密度边界，相对侧微图案总数不同，但每侧微图案种数相同。与标准的延迟池化滤波-校正-滤波（FRF）模型的预测相反，我们观察到密度边界的分割阈值低于特征边界。在该模型中，不同的微模式特定的一阶通道在池化之前由不同的第二阶段滤波器分析。这表明密度边界可以通过不同的早期池化机制来检测。在第二个实验中，我们考虑了两种微模式如何结合在一起进行边界分割。当两个单一微图案-物种密度边界相叠加形成新的密度边界时，各微图案物种形成的密度边界通过概率求和组合在一起。相比之下，当两个单微图案-物种密度边界以相反的相位叠加形成特征边界时，分割性能比单独使用单个微图案-物种边界差。我们得出结论，基于密度的纹理分割的机制与基于特征的纹理分割的机制不同，密度敏感的机制很可能集成了多个一阶滤波器，响应不同的微图案种类。

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Slow binocular reading during rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) in children with amblyopia and the role of fixation instability 弱视儿童快速连续视觉呈现（RSVP）时双眼阅读缓慢及注视不稳定的作用

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Vision Research

Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2025.108684

Dorsa Mir Norouzi , Norah M. Nyangau , Yi-Zhong Wang , Lori M. Dao , Cynthia L. Beauchamp , David R. Stager Jr , Jeffrey S. Hunter , Krista R. Kelly

Children with amblyopia read slower than their peers during binocular viewing. Ocular motor dysfunction typical of amblyopia may cause slow reading. It is unclear whether this is due to fixation instability or increased forward saccades. We examined whether removing the requirement of inter-word saccades helps children with amblyopia read at a similar rate as controls using a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task. We also assessed whether reading rate was related to fixation instability. Children with amblyopia (n = 32) and control (n = 30) children ages 8–12 years silently read sentences presented in RSVP (single word presentation at screen center) during binocular viewing. Exposure time per sentence changed with a 2 − down 1 − up staircase to obtain reading speed thresholds (log words/minute [WPM]). Eye movements were tracked to determine fellow eye (FE) and amblyopic eye (AE) fixation stability during RSVP reading. Children with amblyopia read slower than controls (2.75 ± 0.47 log WPM vs 3.06 ± 0.40 log WPM), and had increased AE fixation instability (0.21 ± 0.39 log deg² vs − 0.20 ± 0.18 log deg²) and increased FE fixation instability (−0.03 ± 0.34 log deg² vs − 0.20 ± 0.15 log deg²) during RSVP reading. Reading rate in amblyopic children with good FE stability (n = 11) did not differ from controls and was faster than those with poor FE stability (n = 21). Children with poor FE stability read slower than controls. Removing the need for inter-word saccades (i.e., RSVP reading) did not help children with amblyopia read at control speeds. Our data support FE fixation instability as a source of slow reading in amblyopia.

弱视儿童在双眼观看时阅读速度比同龄人慢。弱视典型的眼运动障碍可能导致阅读缓慢。目前尚不清楚这是由于固定不稳定还是前扫视增加所致。我们研究了通过快速连续视觉呈现（RSVP）任务，去除单词间扫视的要求是否有助于弱视儿童以与对照组相似的速度阅读。我们还评估了阅读速度是否与注视不稳定性有关。弱视儿童（n = 32）和对照组（n = 30） 8-12岁儿童（n = 30）在双眼观看时默读RSVP（屏幕中心单字呈现）中呈现的句子。每句话的曝光时间随2 -下1 -上的楼梯变化，以获得阅读速度阈值（log words/minute [WPM]）。在RSVP阅读过程中，追踪眼球运动以确定同侧眼（FE）和弱视眼（AE）的注视稳定性。弱视儿童的阅读速度比对照组慢（2.75±0.47 log WPM vs 3.06±0.40 log WPM），并且在RSVP阅读期间AE固定不稳定性增加（0.21±0.39 log deg2 vs - 0.20±0.18 log deg2）和FE固定不稳定性增加（- 0.03±0.34 log deg2 vs - 0.20±0.15 log deg2）。视力稳定性好的弱视儿童（n = 11）的阅读速度与对照组没有差异，且比视力稳定性差的儿童（n = 21）的阅读速度更快。FE稳定性差的儿童阅读速度比对照组慢。消除单词间扫视的需要（即RSVP阅读）并不能帮助弱视儿童以控制速度阅读。我们的数据支持前视固定不稳定是弱视患者阅读缓慢的一个原因。

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Origins and objectives of computational diversity in sensory populations 感官种群计算多样性的起源和目标

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Vision Research

Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2025.108683

Wiktor F. Młynarski

Populations of sensory neurons are not homogeneous. Even neighboring neurons located in the same brain area can process identical stimuli in significantly different ways. Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are a prominent example of such heterogeneity — they exhibit diverse properties whose computational role and purpose remain mysterious. In this review, we explore normative theories of neural computation that attempt to explain the origins and role of functional variability in the retina. We first express a general mathematical formulation of normative theories of neural computation and identify components of these theories that can explain the heterogeneity of sensory populations. We then organize existing theoretical studies of retinal coding according to the factors they highlight as explanations of the computational diversity in the retina — the beginning of the visual hierarchy.

感觉神经元的种群并不均匀。即使是位于同一大脑区域的相邻神经元也可以以明显不同的方式处理相同的刺激。视网膜神经节细胞（RGCs）是这种异质性的一个突出例子-它们表现出不同的特性，其计算作用和目的仍然是神秘的。在这篇综述中，我们探讨了神经计算的规范理论，试图解释视网膜功能变异性的起源和作用。我们首先表达了神经计算规范理论的一般数学公式，并确定了这些理论的组成部分，可以解释感官群体的异质性。然后，我们根据他们强调的解释视网膜计算多样性的因素，组织现有的视网膜编码理论研究-视觉层次的开始。

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Development of foveal crowding in typically developing children and children with developmental dyslexia 典型发育儿童和发展性阅读障碍儿童中央凹拥挤的发展

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Vision Research

Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2025.108681

Yan-Ru Chen , Xiao-He Yu , Jun-Yun Zhang , Jiu-Ju Wang

Foveal crowding refers to the impaired recognition of a foveal stimulus due to the presence of adjacent flankers. Previous research has produced inconsistent results regarding the maturation of foveal crowding, either at ages 5–7 or remaining elevated from ages 5 to at least 11. We investigated this developmental trajectory using a specialized set of digit stimuli (Pelli fonts) tailored for measuring foveal crowding. We measured foveal crowding in preschoolers, school-age typically developing children, and school-age children with developmental dyslexia, as well as in a group of adults. The results show that foveal crowding decreases with age, reaching adult-like levels around 8 years among preschoolers and typically developing children. Furthermore, dyslexic children exhibited heightened foveal crowding compared to their typical peers by approximately the same amount, regardless of age and reading level. Notably, preschoolers exhibited the most pronounced foveal crowding effects with considerable individual variability: some displayed crowding similar to that of older typical children and adults, while others exhibited similar or even higher levels of crowding compared to dyslexic children. This large variability suggests that foveal crowding may have the potential to serve as an early indicator for identifying developmental dyslexia, a possibility that warrants further longitudinal investigation.

中央凹拥挤是指由于相邻侧翼的存在而导致对中央凹刺激的识别受损。先前的研究得出了不一致的结果，关于中央凹拥挤的成熟，要么在5 - 7岁，要么从5岁到至少11岁。我们研究了这种发展轨迹，使用一套专门的数字刺激（Pelli字体）来测量中央凹拥挤。我们测量了学龄前儿童、学龄典型发育儿童、患有发展性阅读障碍的学龄儿童以及一组成年人的中央凹拥挤情况。结果表明，随着年龄的增长，中央凹拥挤程度会降低，在学龄前儿童和正常发育儿童中，中央凹拥挤程度在8岁左右达到与成人相似的水平。此外，无论年龄和阅读水平如何，诵读困难儿童表现出的中央凹拥挤程度与正常儿童相比大致相同。值得注意的是，学龄前儿童表现出最明显的中央凹拥挤效应，具有相当大的个体差异：一些人表现出与年龄较大的典型儿童和成人相似的拥挤效应，而另一些人则表现出与阅读困难儿童相似甚至更高的拥挤水平。这种巨大的可变性表明，中央凹拥挤可能有潜力作为识别发展性阅读障碍的早期指标，这种可能性值得进一步的纵向研究。

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Distinguishing a central selection bias from a central fixation bias: The role of retinal eccentricity in visual selection 区分中心选择偏倚和中心注视偏倚：视网膜偏心在视觉选择中的作用

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Vision Research

Pub Date : 2025-08-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2025.108682

Zirui Gu, Christian N.L. Olivers, Mieke Donk

Earlier work has shown that the eyes preferably select stimuli that are presented close to central fixation over stimuli presented further away, suggesting the existence of a central selection bias. However, so far studies have confounded retinal eccentricity with distance from the center of a display, and the observed effects may thus have been driven by what is known as the central fixation bias, which is the preference for items near the center of a display rather than the center of the retina. This study aimed to dissociate the central selection bias from the central fixation bias, and to uncover its time course. In two experiments, participants were instructed to make a single eye movement to one of two simultaneously presented singletons. The singletons were always presented at the same distance from the center of the display (thus controlling for the central fixation bias) but their eccentricity relative to the initial fixation point was varied (thus allowing for a central selection bias to operate). When the two singletons were displayed at different eccentricities, participants preferred selecting the nearest item. This central selection bias occurred rapidly and transiently, peaking around 230 ms and lasting until approximately 320 ms after display onset. Together, these results suggest that retinal eccentricity is a major factor when multiple objects compete for selection.

早期的研究表明，眼睛更倾向于选择靠近中心注视点的刺激，而不是远离中心注视点的刺激，这表明存在中心选择偏差。然而，到目前为止，研究已经混淆了视网膜偏心与距离显示中心的距离，因此观察到的影响可能是由所谓的中心注视偏差驱动的，这是对显示中心附近的物品的偏好，而不是视网膜中心。本研究旨在分离中心选择偏差和中心注视偏差，并揭示其时间过程。在两个实验中，参与者被要求对同时呈现的两张单张图片中的一张做一次眼球运动。单子总是在距离显示器中心相同的距离上呈现（从而控制中心固定偏差），但它们相对于初始固定点的偏心是不同的（从而允许中心选择偏差的操作）。当两个单品以不同的偏心位置显示时，参与者倾向于选择最近的一个。这种中心选择偏差发生迅速而短暂，在230毫秒左右达到峰值，并持续到大约320毫秒后显示开始。总之，这些结果表明，当多个物体竞争选择时，视网膜偏心是一个主要因素。

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Contextual feedback in object recognition: A biologically inspired computational model and human behavioral study 对象识别中的上下文反馈：生物学启发的计算模型和人类行为研究

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Vision Research

Pub Date : 2025-08-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2025.108679

Elahe Soltandoost , Karim Rajaei , Reza Ebrahimpour

Scene context is known to significantly influence visual perception, enhancing object recognition particularly under challenging viewing conditions. Behavioral and neuroimaging studies suggest that high-level scene information modulates activity in object-selective brain areas through top-down mechanisms, yet the underlying mechanism of this process remains unclear. Here, we introduce a biologically inspired context-based computational model (CBM) that integrates scene context into object recognition via an explicit feedback mechanism. CBM consists of two distinct pathways: Object_CNN, which processes localized object features, and Place_CNN, which extracts global scene information to modulate object processing. We compare CBM to a standard feedforward model, AlexNet, in a multiclass object recognition task under varying levels of visual degradation and occlusion. CBM significantly outperformed a standard feedforward model (AlexNet), demonstrating the effectiveness of structured contextual feedback in resolving ambiguous or degraded visual input. However, behavioral experiments revealed that while humans also benefited from congruent context — particularly at high occlusion levels — the effect was modest. Human recognition remained relatively robust even without contextual support, suggesting that mechanisms such as global shape processing and pattern completion, likely mediated by local recurrent processes, play a dominant role in resolving occluded input. These findings highlight the potential of contextual feedback for enhancing model performance, while also underscoring key differences between human and models. Our results point toward the need for models that combine context-sensitive feedback with object-intrinsic local recurrent processes to more closely approximate the flexible and resilient strategies of human perception.

众所周知，场景环境会显著影响视觉感知，增强物体识别，特别是在具有挑战性的观看条件下。行为和神经影像学研究表明，高水平的场景信息通过自上而下的机制调节了目标选择脑区的活动，但这一过程的潜在机制尚不清楚。在这里，我们引入了一种受生物学启发的基于上下文的计算模型（CBM），该模型通过明确的反馈机制将场景上下文集成到对象识别中。CBM包括两个不同的路径：Object_CNN和Place_CNN，前者处理局部目标特征，后者提取全局场景信息以调制目标处理。我们将CBM与标准前馈模型AlexNet在不同程度的视觉退化和遮挡下的多类物体识别任务中进行比较。CBM显著优于标准前馈模型（AlexNet），证明了结构化上下文反馈在解决模糊或退化的视觉输入方面的有效性。然而，行为实验显示，虽然人类也从一致的语境中受益，尤其是在高闭塞水平下，但效果是有限的。即使没有上下文支持，人类识别仍然相对强大，这表明可能由局部循环过程介导的全局形状处理和模式完成等机制在解决闭塞输入中起主导作用。这些发现强调了上下文反馈在提高模型性能方面的潜力，同时也强调了人类和模型之间的关键差异。我们的研究结果表明，需要将上下文敏感反馈与对象固有的局部循环过程相结合的模型，以更接近人类感知的灵活和弹性策略。

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The contribution of magnocellular selective adaptation to spatial distance compression 大细胞选择适应对空间距离压缩的贡献

IF 1.4 4区心理学 Q4 NEUROSCIENCES

Vision Research

Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2025.108680

Ljubica Jovanovic , Kristian Skoczek , Paul McGraw , Neil Roach , Alan Johnston

Topographic maps early in visual processing preserve the spatial relations of visual stimuli but the metric relationships between these visual directions is not directly accessible. To investigate the magnocellular pathway’s role in metric spatial vision, we employed an adaptation paradigm. Exposure to a 60 Hz flickering disc array (subjectively invisible) induced a systematic compression in the perceived distance between subsequently presented dot pairs. This compression was strongest when adaptation preferentially modulated low spatial frequency channels, consistent with the properties of transient channels tuned to low spatial and high temporal frequencies. Crucially, this compression was attenuated when the adaptor consisted of two cyan lattices rotating on a magenta background near isoluminance, as confirmed by a global motion direction discrimination task. The same pattern emerged when test dots were isoluminant with the background, ruling out test-adaptor similarity as a critical factor. Finally, an isoluminant red-green adaptor flickering on a yellow background induced compression at 3 Hz, but not at 60 Hz. This dissociation aligns with the known properties of magnocellular neurons, which are insesitive to high temporal frequency isoluminant red-green modulation, but can respond to slow isoluminant red-green modulations. These findings reveal a novel role of the magnocellular pathway in metric spatial vision.

视觉处理早期的地形图保留了视觉刺激的空间关系，但这些视觉方向之间的度量关系不能直接获得。为了研究大细胞通路在度量空间视觉中的作用，我们采用了一个适应范式。暴露于60赫兹闪烁的光盘阵列（主观上看不见）诱导了随后呈现的点对之间的感知距离的系统压缩。当自适应优先调制低空间频率信道时，这种压缩最强，这与调谐到低空间和高时间频率的瞬态信道的特性一致。至关重要的是，当适配器由两个青色晶格组成，在接近等亮度的品红背景上旋转时，这种压缩被减弱，正如一个全局运动方向识别任务所证实的那样。当测试点与背景是等光时，出现了相同的模式，排除了测试适配器相似度作为关键因素的可能性。最后，一个在黄色背景上闪烁的红绿适配器在3hz下诱导压缩，而不是在60hz下。这种分离与大细胞神经元的已知特性一致，大细胞神经元对高时间频率的等光红绿调制不敏感，但可以对慢速的等光红绿调制做出反应。这些发现揭示了大细胞通路在度量空间视觉中的新作用。

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Strabismus and amblyopia disrupt spatial perception but not the fidelity of cortical maps in human primary visual cortex 斜视和弱视破坏了人类初级视觉皮层的空间知觉，但没有破坏皮层地图的保真度

IF 1.4 4区心理学 Q4 NEUROSCIENCES

Vision Research

Pub Date : 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2025.108677

D. Schluppeck , D. Arnoldussen , Z. Hussain , J. Besle , S.T. Francis , P.V. McGraw

Amblyopia is a common disorder of spatial vision and is frequently associated with the presence of anisometropia, strabismus, or both, during visual development. For highly visible stimuli, subjects with strabismic amblyopia often report marked spatial distortions, but the neural basis of this supra-threshold deficit is not well understood. Here, we used a combination of behavioural measurements and visual field mapping with high spatial-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at 7 T to assess perceptual distortions in 12 participants with strabismic amblyopia and 9 control subjects. We measured both behavioural and cortical visual field maps monocularly through each eye. Although amblyopic subjects showed increased perceptual distortions, the layout of V1 maps, as measured through the eccentricity and size of population receptive fields, was largely unaltered compared to controls, with no discernible difference in cortical magnification between groups. This suggests that disruptions to V1 retinotopy do not explain the perceptual distortions experienced by amblyopes.

弱视是一种常见的空间视觉障碍，在视觉发育过程中经常与屈光参差、斜视或两者同时存在有关。对于高度可见的刺激，斜视性弱视的受试者经常报告明显的空间扭曲，但这种超阈值缺陷的神经基础尚未得到很好的理解。在这里，我们使用行为测量和高空间分辨率功能性磁共振成像（fMRI）在7 T时的视野测绘相结合的方法来评估12名斜视弱视参与者和9名对照受试者的知觉扭曲。我们通过每只眼睛单眼测量行为和皮层视野图。虽然弱视受试者表现出更多的知觉扭曲，但V1图的布局，通过群体接受野的偏心率和大小来测量，与对照组相比基本没有改变，两组之间的皮层放大没有明显的差异。这表明V1视网膜切除的破坏并不能解释弱视所经历的知觉扭曲。

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The metrics of regressive saccades during reading in 13 written languages 13种书面语言阅读中倒退扫视的度量

IF 1.4 4区心理学 Q4 NEUROSCIENCES

Vision Research

Pub Date : 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2025.108678

Laura Schwalm , Ralph Radach , Victor Kuperman

A well-documented phenomenon in research on eye movement control during reading is the systematic relationship between the landing positions of forward saccades and target word characteristics. However, the behaviour of regressive saccades, which move the eyes in the opposite direction, remains less explored. This study delves into the landing positions of regressive saccades, emphasizing the distinction between intra-word and inter-word regressions, across diverse languages. Using data from the MECO L1 project, which includes eye-tracking data from 589 participants across 13 languages, we scrutinize the precise landing positions of regressions vis-à-vis forward saccades. Our analysis shows a robust effect of launch distance on landing positions for progressive saccades, with undershoots increasing as launch distance grows and overshoots with shorter launch distances. In contrast, regressive inter-word saccades show only minimal variation in landing positions, typically landing near the centre of the target word regardless of launch distance or word length. Intra-word regressions, however, display a pattern similar to progressive saccades, where the landing position is influenced by launch distance, tending to overshoot the optimal viewing position as the launch site moves away from the word’s end. This pattern is consistent across all languages. These findings support the notion of cross-linguistic universality in oculomotor control mechanisms during reading, particularly the precision of regressive saccades. They align with the spatial coding hypothesis, suggesting that precise spatial memory of word positions guides regressive saccades.

在阅读过程中眼球运动控制的研究中，一个有充分证据的现象是前扫视的着落位置与目标词特征之间的系统关系。然而，眼睛向相反方向移动的退行性扫视行为仍未得到充分研究。本研究探讨了倒退扫视的着陆位置，强调了不同语言中词内和词间倒退的区别。使用MECO L1项目的数据，其中包括来自13种语言的589名参与者的眼球追踪数据，我们仔细检查了-à-vis前扫视回归的精确着陆位置。我们的分析表明，发射距离对渐进式扫视的着陆位置有很强的影响，随着发射距离的增加，过冲量增加，随着发射距离的缩短，过冲量增加。相比之下，回归词间扫视在着陆位置上只有很小的变化，通常着陆在目标词的中心附近，而不管发射距离或单词长度。然而，单词内回归显示了一种类似于递进扫视的模式，其中着陆位置受到发射距离的影响，随着发射地点远离单词的末端，往往会超过最佳观看位置。这种模式在所有语言中都是一致的。这些发现支持了阅读过程中动眼肌控制机制的跨语言普遍性，特别是退化扫视的准确性。它们与空间编码假说一致，表明对单词位置的精确空间记忆引导了倒退性扫视。

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