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Investigating the Deployment of Visual Attention Before Accurate and Averaging Saccades via Eye Tracking and Assessment of Visual Sensitivity
Published on: March 18, 2019
Effect of blinks on saccades before smooth-pursuit eye-movement initiation
Holger Rambold1, Ieman El Baz, Christoph Helmchen
1Department of Neurology, University of Luebeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Luebeck, Germany. Holger.Rambold@neuro.uni-luebeck.de
Abstract:
The effect of blinks on the saccade frequency before the onset of step ramp smooth pursuit was assessed in healthy controls. Blinks elicited before smooth pursuit onset suppressed saccades in contrast to a control and a gap paradigm. The source of blink associated suppression of saccades remains unclear but is probably not caused by visual signals or the omnipause neurons.
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