Detecting Moving Objects in the Visual Field (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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The eye's retina can detect and distinguish moving objects in our field of vision because our eyes, heads and bodies also are moving. Somehow retinal cells have to distinguish between our movements and the movements of objects in the world around us.

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