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  • Neuroscience
  • Ophthalmology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Prosaccades are reflexive eye movements toward visual stimuli.
  • Antisaccades are voluntary eye movements away from visual stimuli.
  • Previous research showed training prosaccades on one axis transfers to another.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if saccade training effects are task-specific or transferable.
  • To determine if visual or motor processes underlie saccade training facilitation.
  • To examine the impact of prosaccade and antisaccade training on performance.

Main Methods:

  • Participants trained on prosaccade or antisaccade tasks over 12 sessions.
  • Performance (reaction time, error rate) was tested before, during, and after training.
  • Probes included prosaccade and antisaccade trials.

Main Results:

  • Prosaccade training improved both prosaccade and antisaccade performance.
  • Antisaccade training improved gap prosaccades and antisaccades, with less effect on overlap prosaccades.
  • Training one saccade task rarely negatively impacted performance on untrained tasks.

Conclusions:

  • Saccade training primarily enhances fixation disengagement and motor preparation.
  • Training has minimal impact on visual input to the saccadic system.
  • Behavioral findings suggest training boosts motor excitation and inhibition processes.