Role of eye, head, and shoulder geometry in the planning of accurate arm movements

Journal of Neurophysiology
D Y P Henriques, J D Crawford

Abstract

Eye-hand coordination requires the brain to integrate visual information with the continuous changes in eye, head, and arm positions. This is a geometrically complex process because the eyes, head, and shoulder have different centers of rotation. As a result, head rotation causes the eye to translate with respect to the shoulder. The present study examines the consequences of this geometry for planning accurate arm movements in a pointing task with the head at different orientations. When asked to point at an object, subjects oriented their arm to position the fingertip on the line running from the target to the viewing eye. But this eye-target line shifts when the eyes translate with each new head orientation, thereby requiring a new arm pointing direction. We confirmed that subjects do realign their fingertip with the eye-target line during closed-loop pointing across various horizontal head orientations when gaze is on target. More importantly, subjects also showed this head-position-dependent pattern of pointing responses for the same paradigm performed in complete darkness. However, when gaze was not on target, compensation for these translations in the rotational centers partially broke down. As a result, subjects tended ...Continue Reading

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