Non-contact eye-tracking on cats

Konrad P. Körding; Christoph Kayser; Belinda Y. Betsch; Peter König

doi:10.1016/S0165-0270(01)00423-X

Non-contact eye-tracking on cats

Konrad P. Körding^*, Christoph Kayser, Belinda Y. Betsch, Peter König

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Abstract

The objective of visual systems neuroscience has shifted over the past few years from determining the receptive fields of cells towards the understanding of higher level cognition in awake animals viewing natural stimuli. In experiments with awake animals it is important to control the relevant aspects of behavior. Most important for vision science is the control of the direction of gaze. Here we present Dual Purkinje eye-tracking on cats, which - as a non-contact method - brings a number of advantages. Along with the presented methods for calibration and for synchronization to off-the-shelf video presentation hardware, this method allows high precision experiments to be performed on cats freely viewing videos of natural scenes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	103-111
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Neuroscience Methods
Volume	110
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-0270(01)00423-X
State	Published - Sep 30 2001
Externally published	Yes

Funding

We are grateful to Matteo Carandini for invaluable support and inspiring discussions. Furthermore we would like to thank the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation (KPK) and the Swiss National Fonds (Nr 3100-51059.97) for financial support.

Keywords

Awake animals
Cat
Electrophysiology
Eyetracking
Natural visual stimuli
Video stimulation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Neuroscience

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