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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Shortening and Prolongation of Saccade Latencies Following Microsaccades

Rolfs, Martin, Laubrock, Jochen, Kliegl, Reinhold January 2006 (has links)
When the eyes fixate at a point in a visual scene, small saccades rapidly shift the image on the retina. The effect of these microsaccades on the latency of subsequent large-scale saccades may be twofold. First, microsaccades are associated with an enhancement of visual perception. Their occurrence during saccade target perception should, thus, decrease saccade latencies. On the other hand, microsaccades likely indicate activity in fixation-related oculomotor neurons. These represent competitors to saccade-related cells in the interplay of gaze holding and shifting. Consequently, an increase in saccade latencies after microsaccades would be expected. Here, we present evidence for both aspects of microsaccadic impact on saccade latency. In a delayed response task, participants made saccades to visible or memorized targets. First, microsaccade occurrence up to 50 ms before target disappearance correlated with 18 ms (or 8%) faster saccades to memorized targets. Second, if microsaccades occurred shortly (i.e., < 150 ms) before a saccade was required, saccadic reaction times in visual and memory trials were increased by about 40 ms (or 16%). Hence, microsaccades can have opposite consequences for saccade latencies, pointing at a differential role of these fixational eye movements in preparation of motor programs.
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Contrôle postural et mouvements oculaires chez le sujet atteint de DMLA : du déficit fonctionnel à la rééducation visuo-posturale, oculomotrice et visuo-attentionnelle. / Postural control and eye mouvements in AMD subject : from functional deficit to visuo-postural, oculomotor and visuo-attentional training

Chatard, Hortense 19 November 2019 (has links)
La Dégénérescence Maculaire Liée à l’Age (DMLA) affecte actuellement plus d’un million de malades en France et concernera 288 millions de personnes dans le monde en 2040. Cette pathologie du sujet âgé est à l’origine d’un handicap fonctionnel majeur, source de perte d’autonomie et de dépendance. Malgré une forte prévalence, les performances posturales et oculomotrices des sujets atteints de DMLA restent peu étudiées et beaucoup d’interrogations sont à ce jour sans réponse. Ce projet de recherche comporte deux parties pour lesquelles nous avons utilisé différents dispositifs : les plateformes de force TechnoConcept® et Framiral®, le Mobile eyeBRAIN tracker EBT2®, et la tablette connectée Metrisquare®. Dans un premier temps, nous avons examiné l’impact de la DMLA unilatérale versus bilatérale sur le contrôle postural en comparaison avec des sujets sains âgés (Etude I), pour permettre de mettre en évidence le bénéfice de la rééducation posturale chez cette population de malades (Etudes II et III). Dans un second temps, nous avons étudié l’oculomotricité des sujets atteints de DMLA à travers leurs performances de saccades visuellement guidés et de lecture, afin de rééduquer ces mêmes performances via des exercices oculomoteurs et visuo-attentionnels (Etude IV, V et VI). En objectivant les mouvements oculaires ainsi que le déplacement du centre de pression chez les sujets atteints de DMLA uni- et bilatérale, en comparaison avec des sujets sains du même âge, nous avons cherché à confirmer notre hypothèse : le déficit visuel des sujets atteints de DMLA, à l’origine d’une malvoyance, entraine la mise en place de mécanismes adaptatifs qui, grâce à une rééducation adaptée, permettent de réduire les restrictions fonctionnelles posturales et oculomotrices. In fine, ces travaux apportent des solutions pour mieux prévenir et rééduquer ces déficits fonctionnels, grâce à des outils innovants qui permettront d’optimiser la prise en charge. / Nowadays, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects more than one million of people in France and will concern 288 million of people in the world in 2040. This pathology impacts elderly and generates a serious functional disability which causes autonomy loss and dependance. Despite the high prevalence, the postural and oculomotor performances of AMD subjects are little studied and there are still lot of questions without answers. This research project is composed by two parts and used different experimental techniques: TechnoConcept® and Framiral® force plateforms, Mobile eyeBRAIN tracker EBT2®, and Metrisquare® digital tablet. Firstly, we examined the impact of unilateral versus bilateral AMD in postural control, compared with healthy elderly (Study I), in order to evidence the benefits of postural training in these groups (Studies II and III). Secondly, we studied the oculomotor pattern in AMD subjects during visually guided saccades and reading tasks, to improve their performance with oculomotor and visuo-attentional exercises (Studies IV, V and VI). By objectifying eye movements as well as the displacement of center of pressure in unilateral and bilateral AMD subjects, compared with healthy age-matched controls, we want to confirm our hypothesis: the visual impairment of AMD subjects, which causes low vision, leads to the implementation of adaptive mechanisms that, through appropriate training, reduce postural and oculomotor functional restrictions.In fine, this research provides specialists with solutions to prevent and train these functional deficits with novator techniques, in order to optimize the coverage.

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