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...

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Main Authors: Alexandre Zénon, Brian D Corneil, Andrea Alamia, Nabil Filali-Sadouk, Etienne Olivier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3900577?pdf=render