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Presaccadic attention improves or impairs performance by enhancing sensitivity to higher spatial frequencies.
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- What one sees depends on how far the eye has moved.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Saccade direction modulates the temporal dynamics of presaccadic attention.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Vertical shifts of visuospatial attention, not (eye) movements, affect auditory pitch discrimination.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Distinct contributions of foveal and extrafoveal visual information to emotion judgments and gaze behavior for faces.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Presaccadic Attention Shifts Up- and Downwards: Evidence From the Pupil Light Response.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Role of the Medial Posterior Parietal Cortex in Orchestrating Attention and Reaching.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Transsaccadic perception of changes in object regularity.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Presaccadic preview shapes postsaccadic processing more where perception is poor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Presaccadic Attention Enhances and Reshapes the Contrast Sensitivity Function Differentially around the Visual Field.eNeuro · 2024Article
- Effects of Cervical Spinal Manipulation on Saccadic Eye Movements.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Presaccadic Attention Depends on Eye Movement Direction and Is Related to V1 Cortical Magnification.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Pre-saccadic shifts of attention in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia.Brain and behavior · 2024Article
- Ultra-fine resolution of pre-saccadic attention in the fovea.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Presaccadic attention does not facilitate the detection of changes in the visual field.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- An eye for detail: Eye movements and attention at the foveal scale.Vision research · 2023Article
- Presaccadic attention sharpens visual acuity.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Presaccadic attention enhances contrast sensitivity, but not at the upper vertical meridian.iScience · 2022Article
- Differential Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Attention on Sensory Tuning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- An oscillatory pipelining mechanism supporting previewing during visual exploration and reading.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2021Review
- Different computations underlie overt presaccadic and covert spatial attention.Nature human behaviour · 2021Article
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Abstract
Right before we move our eyes, visual performance and neural responses for the saccade target are enhanced. This effect, presaccadic attention, is considered to prioritize the saccade target and to enhance behavioral performance for the saccade target. Recent evidence has shown that presaccadic attention modulates the processing of feature information. Hitherto, it remains unknown whether presaccadic modulations on feature information are flexible, to improve performance for the task at hand, or automatic, so that they alter the featural representation similarly regardless of the task. Using a masking procedure, here we report that presaccadic attention can either improve or impair performance depending on the spatial frequency content of the visual input. These counterintuitive modulations were significant at a time window right before saccade onset. Furthermore, merely deploying covert attention within the same temporal interval without preparing a saccade did not affect performance. This study reveals that presaccadic attention not only prioritizes the saccade target, but also automatically modifies its featural representation.
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