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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
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Pre-saccadic remapping relies on dynamics of spatial attention.
Martin Szinte1, Donatas Jonikaitis2, Dragan Rangelov3
1Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Elife
|January 1, 2019
Summary
Pre-saccadic remapping of attention to upcoming visual locations requires time to develop. Attention is remapped only when cues appear sufficiently early before a saccade, not when they appear shortly before.
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Science
- Visual Perception
Background:
- Saccades cause visual scene shifts on the retina.
- Neuronal receptive fields in oculomotor areas may predictively remap to compensate for these shifts.
- Attentional selection might limit remapping to attended locations, introducing temporal dynamics.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the temporal dynamics of attentional remapping before saccades.
- To determine if attentional remapping evolves over time based on cue timing.
- To explore the relationship between spatial attention and pre-saccadic remapping.
Main Methods:
- Cued spatial locations at varying times before saccades.
- Constructed maps of attentional allocation across the visual field.
- Analyzed the timing of attentional resource reallocation relative to saccade onset.
Main Results:
- No attentional remapping was observed when cues appeared shortly before saccades.
- Attentional resources were precisely reallocated to remapped locations when cues appeared sufficiently early.
- Pre-saccadic remapping demonstrated a time-dependent development.
Conclusions:
- Pre-saccadic remapping of attention is not instantaneous and requires development time.
- The spatial and temporal dynamics of spatial attention underpin pre-saccadic remapping.
- Attentional selection plays a crucial role in limiting and timing the remapping process.
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