ArticleNeuron2018
Enhanced Neural Processing by Covert Attention only during Microsaccades Directed toward the Attended Stimulus.
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- Distinct modulation of microsaccades in motor planning and covert attention.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Stimulus representations in visual cortex shaped by spatial attention and microsaccades.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Separating cognitive and motor processes in the behaving mouse.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Pre-stimulus activities affect subsequent visual processing: Empirical evidence and potential neural mechanisms.Brain and behavior · 2025Review
- Adaptive modulation of microsaccades and saccade dynamics by global luminance.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Attentional shifts bias microsaccade direction but do not cause new microsaccades.Communications psychology · 2024Article
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- Short-latency preference for faces in primate superior colliculus depends on visual cortex.Neuron · 2024Article
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- Do microsaccades vary with discriminability around the visual field?Journal of vision · 2024Article
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Abstract
Attention can be "covertly" directed without eye movements; yet, even during fixation, there are continuous microsaccades (MSs). In areas V4 and IT of macaques, we found that firing rates and stimulus representations were enhanced by attention but only following a MS toward the attended stimulus. The onset of neural attentional modulations was tightly coupled to the MS onset. The results reveal a major link between the effects of covert attention on cortical visual processing and the overt movement of the eyes.
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