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Investigating the Deployment of Visual Attention Before Accurate and Averaging Saccades via Eye Tracking and Assessment of Visual Sensitivity

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Feature-based attention across saccades and immediate postsaccadic selection.

Cécile Eymond¹, Patrick Cavanagh^2,3, Thérèse Collins²

¹Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes & CNRS, Paris, France. cecile.eymond@gmail.com.

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|April 17, 2016

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Saccade-related attention does not prime subsequent feature search, indicating a dissociation between eye movement programming and feature-based attention. Priming of pop-out occurred only with target repetitions within the same task.

Keywords:

Attention Eye movements Feature-based attention Priming of pop-out Saccades Visual search

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Visual Perception

Background:

Attentional resources are directed to saccade goals before eye movements.
Saccade-related attention is primarily spatial.
The role of feature selectivity in saccade-related attention remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether saccade-related attention influences postsaccadic feature search.
To determine if feature selectivity is maintained across saccades.
To explore the relationship between landmark search and feature search mechanisms.

Main Methods:

Participants performed a postsaccadic feature search after a saccade to a colored target.
Saccade target color was manipulated (congruent, incongruent, neutral) relative to the search target.
Intertrial effects, including priming of pop-out, were analyzed.

Main Results:

Saccade target color did not prime the postsaccadic feature search.
Priming of pop-out was observed for feature search when target color repeated across trials.
No congruency effect was found between saccade and search targets, even across trials.

Conclusions:

Saccade-related attention mechanisms may differ from those underlying feature search.
Priming of pop-out is task-specific and not transferred across different tasks.
A dissociation exists between feature-based attention and eye movement programming attention.