WhEye - Active Temporal Encoding of Spatial Information in Dyslexia

Oggetto e finalità:

Unlike the traditional theories of visual functions, which assume vision as a purely perceptual process entirely based on spatial mechanisms, WhEye proposes that:

(i) spatial representation is inherently a visuomotor process,

(ii) fundamentally relying on spatiotemporal encoding mechanisms,

(iii) on a sustained visuomotor synchronization operating through neural oscillations.

Reading serves as an exemplar test case: as we read a text, our eyes continuously jump from word to word, converting the static spatial signal from the written page into a spatiotemporal movie that our neurons encode. Moreover, eye movements need to be tightly coordinated with visual processing to optimize reading time.