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Learning to silence saccadic suppression.

Chris Scholes¹, Paul V McGraw², Neil W Roach¹

¹Visual Neuroscience Group, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom chris.scholes@nottingham.ac.uk neil.roach@nottingham.ac.uk.

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|February 2, 2021

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Visual learning can reduce eye movement suppression, improving detection performance. This study shows saccadic suppression is silenced during training, demonstrating learning

Keywords:

microsaccades perceptual learning saccadic suppression

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Visual Perception

Background:

Perceptual stability relies on saccadic suppression, a reduction in visual sensitivity during eye movements.
While saccadic programming is known to be adaptable, the plasticity of saccadic suppression's perceptual effects remains largely unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether saccadic suppression can be modified through learning.
To determine if perceptual consequences of saccades are plastic and can be attenuated.

Main Methods:

Participants (n=44) trained for 7 days on a visual detection-in-noise task.
Eye movements (fixational saccades) were tracked, and performance was analyzed relative to stimulus-saccade timing.
Changes in sensitivity and saccadic suppression magnitude were assessed over the training period.

Main Results:

Visual sensitivity improved significantly with training.
Saccadic suppression robustly present on day 1 gradually declined, becoming effectively silenced by the end of training.
This silencing generalized to untrained visual areas and was reversible when task timing was disrupted.

Conclusions:

Learning can actively circumvent saccadic suppression to enhance visual performance.
This adaptive mechanism temporarily reduces or eliminates saccadic suppression when behaviorally beneficial.
The findings suggest that saccadic suppression is not a fixed process but a flexible one modulated by experience.