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Averaging saccades are repelled by prior uninformative cues at both short and long intervals

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posted on 2023-05-18, 22:01 authored by Wang, Z, Jason Satel, Hilchey, MD, Klein, RM
When two spatially proximal stimuli are presented simultaneously, a first saccade is often directed to an intermediate location between the stimuli (averaging saccade). In an earlier study, Watanabe (2001) showed that, at a long cue-target onset asynchrony (CTOA; 600 ms), uninformative cues not only slowed saccadic response times (SRTs) to targets presented at the cued location in single target trials (inhibition of return, IOR), but also biased averaging saccades away from the cue in double target trials. The present study replicated Watanabe's experimental task with a short CTOA (50 ms), as well as with mixed short (50 ms) and long (600 ms) CTOAs. In all conditions on double target trials, uninformative cues robustly biased averaging saccades away from cued locations. Although SRTs on single target trials were delayed at previously cued locations at both CTOAs when they were mixed, this delay was not observed in the blocked, short CTOA condition. We suggest that top-down factors, such as expectation and attentional control settings, may have asymmetric effects on the temporal and spatial dynamics of oculomotor processing.

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Publication title

Visual Cognition

Volume

20

Issue

7

Pagination

825-847

ISSN

1350-6285

Department/School

School of Psychological Sciences

Publisher

Psychology Press

Place of publication

United Kingdom

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Copyright 2012 Psychology Press

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