Cognitive and cortical mechanisms of trans-saccadic motion perception

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My research program investigates the underlying mechanisms of a fundamental everyday conscious visual experience: the perception of a stable and continuous visual world despite dramatic changes to the location of objects in a visual scene every time we move our eyes. We scan our surroundings using rapid eye movements called saccades. We typically make about 3-5 saccades per second. During each saccade the entire image of the world shifts across our retina and objects in our surroundings shift to different retinal locations. However, rather than perceiving these objects as jumping around as our eyes move they are normally perceived as spatially stable in the world. This is an example of perceptual continuity in so-called trans-saccadic perception, and suggests that the visual system has mechanisms for keeping track of where objects are in space by taking into account the change in gaze during saccades. Most research on perceptual continuity in trans-saccadic perception has been focused on how the brain keeps track of the locations of