TY - JOUR TI - Retinal motion statistics during natural locomotion AU - Muller, Karl S AU - Matthis, Jonathan AU - Bonnen, Kathryn AU - Cormack, Lawrence K AU - Huk, Alex C AU - Hayhoe, Mary A2 - Huxlin, Krystel R A2 - Moore, Tirin A2 - Lappi, Otto VL - 12 PY - 2023 DA - 2023/05/03 SP - e82410 C1 - eLife 2023;12:e82410 DO - 10.7554/eLife.82410 UR - https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.82410 AB - Walking through an environment generates retinal motion, which humans rely on to perform a variety of visual tasks. Retinal motion patterns are determined by an interconnected set of factors, including gaze location, gaze stabilization, the structure of the environment, and the walker’s goals. The characteristics of these motion signals have important consequences for neural organization and behavior. However, to date, there are no empirical in situ measurements of how combined eye and body movements interact with real 3D environments to shape the statistics of retinal motion signals. Here, we collect measurements of the eyes, the body, and the 3D environment during locomotion. We describe properties of the resulting retinal motion patterns. We explain how these patterns are shaped by gaze location in the world, as well as by behavior, and how they may provide a template for the way motion sensitivity and receptive field properties vary across the visual field. KW - retinal motion statistics KW - natural environments KW - eye movements KW - locomotion KW - cortical motion sensitivity JF - eLife SN - 2050-084X PB - eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd ER -