TMS over the Human Frontal Eye Field Distorts Perceptual Stability across Eye Movements

We perceive a stable outside word despite the constant changes of visual input induced by our own eye movements. An internal monitoring of eye movements may contribute to the seemingly perfect maintenance of perceptual stability. The frontal eye field (FEF) represents a candidate area for the cortical integration of oculomotor monitoring signals: It receives information about an impending eye movement from the brainstem (Sommer and Wurtz, 2002) and exhibits predictive receptive field changes that could serve the trans-saccadic integration of visual space (Umeno and Goldberg, 1997; Sommer and Wurtz, 2006). Howeve…