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¹Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen 6500 HB, The Netherlands, University of Birmingham, School of Psychology, Birmingham B15 2TT, West Midlands, United Kingdom, and Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, Psychology, and Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada.

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Summary

Saccadic eye movements cause retinal image shifts, yet visual perception remains stable. This study found that perisaccadic mislocalization errors only occur after saccade execution, not during preparation, challenging prior models.

Keywords:

countermanding perisaccadic mislocalization remapping saccade preparation visual stability

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology
Vision Science

Background:

Visual stability is maintained despite retinal image shifts during saccadic eye movements.
Efference copy mechanisms are hypothesized to predict and compensate for these shifts.
Perisaccadic mislocalization is a phenomenon linked to predictive remapping during saccades.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether saccade preparation, independent of execution, causes mislocalization.
To test if aborting a planned saccade prevents mislocalization errors.
To determine the role of saccade execution in perisaccadic spatial perception.

Main Methods:

A novel psychophysical paradigm combining flash localization with a saccade countermanding task.
Human subjects performed saccadic eye movements that were sometimes cancelled.
Localization accuracy of flashed stimuli presented around the saccade onset was measured.

Main Results:

No significant mislocalization was observed when saccades were planned but aborted before execution.
Mislocalization errors were present only when saccades were fully executed.
The results held even for saccades cancelled near the point of no return.

Conclusions:

Saccade execution, not preparation, is necessary for perisaccadic mislocalization.
Existing models suggesting preparation-driven mislocalization are challenged.
Spatial perception during saccades is constructed from memory post-execution.