To clarify the relation between attention and microsaccades, we monitored microsaccades while observers performed tasks with different attentional demand. In four high-demand …
E Balcetis, GD Lassiter - 2010 - taylorfrancis.com
This volume takes a contemporary and novel look at how people see the world around them. We generally believe we see our surroundings and everything in it with complete accuracy …
With each eye movement, the image received by the visual system changes drastically. To maintain stable spatiotopic (world-centered) representations, the relevant retinotopic (eye …
KW Doron, CM Funk, M Glickstein - Brain research, 2010 - Elsevier
A possible role of the cerebellum in cognitive function might be revealed through its anatomical connections with specific regions of the cerebral cortex. To understand the kind …
Figure 1: Vertical meridian effect. Schematic drawing of the experimental set up used by Rizzolatti, Riggio, Dascola, Umiltà (1987) to test the presence of the Vertical meridian effect …
Previous behavioural and neuroscience studies have shown that the systems involved in the control of attention and action are functionally and anatomically linked. We used behavioural …
DT Smith, K Ball, A Ellison, T Schenk - Neuropsychologia, 2010 - Elsevier
Attention mediates access of sensory events to higher cognitive systems and can be driven by either top-down voluntary mechanisms or in a bottom-up, reflexive fashion by the sensory …
The pre-motor theory of attention suggests that the mechanisms involved in target selection for eye movements are the same as those for spatial attention shifts. The pre-saccadic …
SP Kelly, JJ Foxe, G Newman… - European Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
When preparing to make a saccadic eye movement in a cued direction, perception of stimuli at the target location is enhanced, just as it is when attention is covertly deployed there …