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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Parametric information about eye movements is sent to the ears.

Stephanie N Lovich, Cynthia D King, David L K Murphy, Rachel E Landrum, Christopher A Shera, Jennifer M Groh

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Eye Movement-Related Eardrum Oscillations (EMREOs) Occur without Visual Input But Are Reduced during Closed Eyelids.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  7. Detection of Spatially Localized Sounds Is Robust to Saccades and Concurrent Eye Movement-Related Eardrum Oscillations (EMREOs).The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  8. Conserved features of eye movement related eardrum oscillations (EMREOs) across humans and monkeys.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Stephanie N Lovich *Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708.ORCID 0000-0002-4947-1255
Cynthia D King *Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708.
David L K Murphy *Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708.ORCID 0000-0002-2351-4712
Rachel E LandrumDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708.
Christopher A SheraDepartment of Otolaryngology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007.ORCID 0000-0002-5939-2710
Jennifer M GrohDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708.ORCID 0000-0002-6435-3935
Duke University · USUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

UNDERSTANDING OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONSR01DC003687 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Christopher A Shera · 1999 to 2026
$9.8M
Mechanisms of Oculomotor Influences on HearingR01DC020363 · NIDCD · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI JENNIFER M GROH · 2022 to 2026
$2.3M
Multisensory Processes in the Mechanics of HearingR01DC017532 · NIDCD · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI GROH, JENNIFER M · 2019 to 2023
$1.7M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC003687NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC017532NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC020363
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eye movements alter the relationship between the visual and auditory spatial scenes. Signals related to eye movements affect neural pathways from the ear through auditory cortex and beyond, but how these signals contribute to computing the locations of sounds with respect to the visual scene is poorly understood. Here, we evaluated the information contained in eye movement-related eardrum oscillations (EMREOs), pressure changes recorded in the ear canal that occur in conjunction with simultaneous eye movements. We show that EMREOs contain parametric information about horizontal and vertical eye displacement as well as initial/final eye position with respect to the head. The parametric information in the horizontal and vertical directions can be modeled as combining linearly, allowing accurate prediction of the EMREOs associated with oblique (diagonal) eye movements. Target location can also be inferred from the EMREO signals recorded during eye movements to those targets. We hypothesize that the (currently unknown) mechanism underlying EMREOs could impose a two-dimensional eye-movement-related transfer function on any incoming sound, permitting subsequent processing stages to compute the positions of sounds in relation to the visual scene.

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Eye MovementsSaccadesMovementOcular Physiological PhenomenaSoundcoordinate transformationsotoacoustic emissionsreference framessaccadessound localization

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PMID37988462
PMCPMC10691342
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