Authors
Kiki Arkesteijn, Jeroen Smeets, Mieke Donk, Artem Belopolsky
Publication date
2018/9/1
Journal
Journal of Vision
Volume
18
Issue
10
Pages
374-374
Publisher
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Description
When a distractor is presented in close spatial proximity to a target, a saccade tends to land in between the two objects rather than on the target. This' global effect'is thought to reflect unresolved competition between target and distractor. It is unclear whether the global effect persists across saccades since a saccade displaces the retinotopic representations of target and distractor. In the present study participants performed a sequence of a horizontal and a vertical saccade and the global effect was induced by presenting a distractor next to the second saccade target. This distractor was removed during the first saccade. On half of the trials, the second target also disappeared after the first saccade, resulting in a memory-guided second saccade. On these trials, the second saccade showed a global effect, despite the disappearance of the distractor after the first saccade. Without correction based on a visible target …
Scholar articles
K Arkesteijn, J Smeets, M Donk, A Belopolsky - Journal of Vision, 2018