Eye movement-invariant representations in the human visual system (Nishimoto, Huth, Bilenko & Gallant, Journal of Vision, 2017)
January 1, 2017
Visual representations must be robust to eye movements, but the degree of eye movement invariance across the visual hierarchy is not well understood. We used fMRI to compare brain activity while subjects watched natural movies during fixation and free viewing. Responses in ventral temporal areas are largely invariant to eye movements, while early visual areas are strongly affected. These results suggest that the ventral temporal areas maintain a stable representation of the visual world during natural vision.