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Stefan Van der Stigchel¹, Martijn J Schut¹, Jasper Fabius¹

¹Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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Transsaccadic perception integrates visual information across eye movements. Our study shows that when attention shifts with saccade landing errors, this integration is disrupted, challenging previous findings.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Visual Perception
Oculomotor Control

Background:

Visual information is integrated across eye movements (saccades) for continuous perception.
Saccade landing point errors typically do not impair transsaccadic feature integration.
This resilience may stem from attention preceding the intended saccade target, not the actual landing point.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if saccade landing point errors affect transsaccadic perception when attention follows the landing point deviation.
To examine the role of presaccadic shifts of attention in transsaccadic feature perception.

Main Methods:

Employed saccadic adaptation to alter saccade vectors and presaccadic attention shifts.
Used a feature report paradigm where observers reported target color before and after adaptation.
Saccade landing points were occasionally deviated from the intended target.

Main Results:

Saccadic adaptation led to less precise presaccadic color information.
Transsaccadic perception showed increased reliance on postsaccadic color estimates after adaptation.
Deviations in saccade landing points, when coupled with attention shifts, altered transsaccadic perception.

Conclusions:

Transsaccadic perception is not universally unaffected by saccade landing point deviations.
When presaccadic attention aligns with saccade landing errors, transsaccadic perception is impaired.
Findings suggest transsaccadic feature perception is dependent on the dynamics of visual spatial attention.