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Effect of saccade automaticity on perisaccadic space compression.

Michele Fornaciai¹, Paola Binda²

¹Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Pharmacology and Child Health, University of Florence Florence, Italy.

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|October 7, 2015

Summary

Perisaccadic compression, a visual mislocalization phenomenon during eye movements, is a robust effect. It occurs regardless of task-specific training or the presence of a visual cue marking the saccade target.

Keywords:

eye movements perisaccadic mislocalization practice saccades spatial compression

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology
Visual Perception

Background:

Stimuli presented during saccadic eye movements are often mislocalized.
This perisaccadic mislocalization results in visual spatial compression towards the saccade target.
Previous studies typically used highly trained subjects and specific task paradigms.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the dependency of perisaccadic mislocalization on specific experimental contexts.
To determine if practice or task-specific training influences the perisaccadic compression effect.
To assess the robustness of perisaccadic compression across different saccade task conditions.

Main Methods:

Studied perisaccadic localization in novice participants performing a saccade task.
Measured localization performance as participants practiced the task over time.
Compared novice performance with expert observers under varying saccade target conditions (with and without abrupt onset cues).

Main Results:

Perisaccadic localization showed minimal changes with practice in novice participants.
Novice performance was comparable to that of expert observers.
Mislocalization remained consistent even when saccades were not driven by a salient abrupt onset cue.

Conclusions:

Perisaccadic compression is a fundamental visual phenomenon.
The effect is largely insensitive to the specific experimental paradigm used to elicit saccades.
Task practice and observer expertise do not significantly alter perisaccadic spatial compression.