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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
The time course of vertical, horizontal and oblique saccade trajectories: Evidence for greater distractor
Kaitlin E W Laidlaw1, Alan Kingstone
1University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. klaidlaw@psych.ubc.ca
Abstract:
The present study aimed to characterize the effect of a nearby distractor on vertical, horizontal, and oblique saccade curvature under normal saccade preparation times. Consistent with previous findings, longer-latency vertical saccades showed greater curvature away from a distractor than did oblique or horizontal saccades. At short latencies, vertical saccades also showed greater curvature towards the distractor. A neural explanation for why vertical saccades show greater interference from a distractor is theorized.
