Trial reportExperimental brain research2005
Crossmodal coupling of oculomotor control and spatial attention in vision and audition.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.
- Oculomotor inhibition precedes temporally expected auditory targets.Nature communications · 2020Trial
- Pre-stimulus microsaccadic inhibition reflects both temporal and sensory expectations.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Learned statistical regularity modulates anticipatory micro-saccades toward suppressed distractor locations.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Rapid Motor Inhibition as a Mechanism to Prevent Outdated Movements.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Microsaccade Direction Reveals the Variation in Auditory Selective Attention Processes.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Eyes on hold: motion task difficulty jointly delays microsaccade and pupil responses.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Eyes on the past: Gaze stability differs between temporal expectation and temporal attention.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Effects of others' gaze and facial expression on an observer's microsaccades and their association with ADHD tendencies.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2023Article
- Microsaccades are directed toward the midpoint between targets in a variably cued attention task.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation to frontal but not occipital cortex disrupts endogenous attention.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Microsaccades as a long-term oculomotor correlate in visual perceptual learning.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
- Saccadic inhibition during free viewing in macaque monkeys.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
- Microsaccadic correlates of covert attention and crowding.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Dissociable Cortical and Subcortical Mechanisms for Mediating the Influences of Visual Cues on Microsaccadic Eye Movements.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2021Review
- Sustained spatial attention accounts for the direction bias of human microsaccades.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Microsaccadic modulation evoked by emotional events.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2020Review
- Oculomotor freezing reflects tactile temporal expectation and aids tactile perception.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Microsaccadic rate and pupil size dynamics in pro-/anti-saccade preparation: the impact of intermixed vs. blocked trial administration.Psychological research · 2020Article
- Relationship of postsaccadic oscillation with the state of the pupil inside the iris and with cognitive processing.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Microsaccadic Eye Movements but not Pupillary Dilation Response Characterizes the Crossmodal Freezing Effect.Cerebral cortex communications · 2020Article
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Abstract
Fixational eye movements occur involuntarily during visual fixation of stationary scenes. The fastest components of these miniature eye movements are microsaccades, which can be observed about once per second. Recent studies demonstrated that microsaccades are linked to covert shifts of visual attention. Here, we generalized this finding in two ways. First, we used peripheral cues, rather than the centrally presented cues of earlier studies. Second, we spatially cued attention in vision and audition to visual and auditory targets. An analysis of microsaccade responses revealed an equivalent impact of visual and auditory cues on microsaccade-rate signature (i.e. an initial inhibition followed by an overshoot and a final return to the pre-cue baseline rate). With visual cues or visual targets, microsaccades were briefly aligned with cue direction and then opposite to cue direction during the overshoot epoch, probably as a result of an inhibition of an automatic saccade to the peripheral cue. With left auditory cues and auditory targets microsaccades oriented in cue direction. We argue that microsaccades can be used to study crossmodal integration of sensory information and to map the time course of saccade preparation during covert shifts of visual and auditory attention.
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