TMS over posterior parietal cortex disrupts trans-saccadic visual stability

Saccadic eye movements change the retinal location of visual objects, but we do not experience the visual world as constantly moving, we perceive it as seamless and stable. This visual stability may be achieved by an internal or efference copy of each saccade that, combined with the retinal information, allows the visual system to cancel out or ignore the self-caused retinal motion.

Source: BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation - November 29, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Th érèse Collins, Pierre O. Jacquet Source Type: research