Counterproductive Effect of Saccadic Suppression during Attention Shifts

During saccadic eye movements, the processing of visual information is transiently interrupted by a mechanism known as “saccadic suppression” [1] that is thought to ensure perceptual stability [2]. If, as proposed in the premotor theory of attention [3], covert shifts of attention rely on sub-thresh...

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Main Authors: Zénon, Alexandre, Corneil, Brian D., Alamia, Andrea, Filali-Sadouk, Nabil, Olivier, Etienne
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900577/