Spatial frequency selectivity of visual suppression during convergence eye movements
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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
Sven Mucke1, Niall C Strang, Senay Aydin
1Glasgow Caledonian University, 70 Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK. Sven.Mucke@gcu.ac.uk
Abstract:
Visual suppression of low-spatial frequency information during eye movements is believed to contribute to a stable perception of our visual environment. While visual perception has been studied extensively during saccades, vergence has been somewhat neglected. Here, we show that convergence eye movements reduce contrast sensitivity to low spatial frequency information around the onset of the eye movements, but do not affect sensitivity to higher spatial frequencies. This suggests that visual suppression elicited by convergence eye movements may have the same temporal and spatial characteristics as saccadic suppression.
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