ArticleCurrent directions in psychological science2018
Visuospatial Working Memory as a Fundamental Component of the Eye Movement System.
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- The reducing effect of visuospatial cognitive load on alcohol craving in problematic drinkers.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Microsaccade Activity During Visuospatial Working Memory in Early-Stage Parkinson's Disease.Journal of eye movement research · 2025Article
- Effort drives saccade selection.eLife · 2025Article
- Examining the joint and unique contributions of contour integration and visuospatial memory to altered eye gaze perception in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research · 2025Article
- Presaccadic Attention Shifts Up- and Downwards: Evidence From the Pupil Light Response.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Eye movements follow the dynamic shifts of attention through serial order in verbal working memory.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Openness to experience predicts eye movement behavior during scene viewing.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
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- The role of color in transsaccadic object correspondence.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Working memory control predicts fixation duration in scene-viewing.Psychological research · 2023Article
- A proposed attention-based model for spatial memory formation and retrieval.Cognitive processing · 2023Review
- Oculomotor rehearsal in visuospatial working memory.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Processing spatial configurations in visuospatial working memory is influenced by shifts of overt visual attention.PloS one · 2023Article
- Gaze Restriction and Reactivation of Place-bound Content Drive Eye Movements During Mental Imagery.Journal of cognition · 2023Article
- Less motor (re-)planning requires fewer working memory resources.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
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Humans make frequent movements of the eyes (saccades) to explore the visual environment. Here we argue that visuo-spatial working memory (VSWM) is a fundamental component of the eye movement system. Memory representations in VSWM are functionally integrated at all stages of orienting, from selection of the target, to maintenance of visual features across the saccade, to processes supporting the experience of perceptual continuity after the saccade, to the correction of gaze when the eyes fail to land on the intended object. VSWM is finely tuned to meet the challenges of active vision.
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