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ArticleVision research2016

Suppressive interactions underlying visually evoked fixational saccades.

Helena X Wang, Shlomit Yuval-Greenberg, David J Heeger

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Article in Vision research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. Article
  2. Saccadic latency in amblyopia.Journal of vision · 2016
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  3. Fixational eye movements predict visual sensitivity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015
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3 authors.

Helena X WangCenter for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, United States; Dept. of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, United States.
Shlomit Yuval-GreenbergDept. of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, United States; School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
David J HeegerCenter for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, United States; Dept. of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, United States. Electronic address: david.heeger@nyu.edu.

Funding

Vision Core Grant- Design and Fabrication ModuleP30EY013079 · NEI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI ANGELAKI, DORA · 2000 to 2025
$14.2M
Temporal Dynamics of Visual Perception and AttentionR01EY019693 · NEI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI CARRASCO, MARISA · 2010 to 2022
$4.0M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY013079NEI NIH HHS R01 EY019693NEI NIH HHS R01-EY019693
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small saccades occur frequently during fixation, and are coupled to changes in visual stimulation and cognitive state. Neurophysiologically, fixational saccades reflect neural activity near the foveal region of a continuous visuomotor map. It is well known that competitive interactions between neurons within visuomotor maps contribute to target selection for large saccades. Here we asked how such interactions in visuomotor maps shape the rate and direction of small fixational saccades. We measured fixational saccades during periods of prolonged fixation while presenting pairs of visual stimuli (parafoveal: 0.8° eccentricity; peripheral: 5° eccentricity) of various contrasts. Fixational saccade direction was biased toward locations of parafoveal stimuli but not peripheral stimuli, ∼100-250ms following stimulus onset. The rate of fixational saccades toward parafoveal stimuli (congruent saccades) increased systematically with parafoveal stimulus contrast, and was suppressed by the simultaneous presentation of a peripheral stimulus. The suppression was best characterized as a combination of two processes: a subtractive suppression of the overall fixational saccade rate and a divisive suppression of the direction bias. These results reveal the nature of suppressive interactions within visuomotor maps and constrain models of the population code for fixational saccades.

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AdultAnalysis of VarianceAttentionFemaleFixation, OcularHumansMaleNeuronsPhotic StimulationSaccadesVisual FieldsVisual PerceptionYoung AdultFixational eye movementsMicrosaccadesSuperior colliculusSuppressionVisual attentionVisuomotor maps

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PMID25645962
PMCPMC4520795

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