Trial reportProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019
Visual attention is not limited to the oculomotor range.
Trial report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
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- Surrounding space associations affect attentional orienting and visual discrimination in frontal field.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- ERP evidence of attentional selection outside of effective oculomotor range.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Saccade endpoints reflect attentional templates in visual search: Evidence from feature distribution learning.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Presaccadic attentional shifts are not modulated by saccade amplitude.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Pre-stimulus activities affect subsequent visual processing: Empirical evidence and potential neural mechanisms.Brain and behavior · 2025Review
- Exogenous spatial attention is functional in paralytic strabismics.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- 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
- Dissociable roles of human frontal eye fields and early visual cortex in presaccadic attention.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Capacity and selection in immersive visual working memory following naturalistic object disappearance.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- A dynamic 1/f noise protocol to assess visual attention without biasing perceptual processing.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Presaccadic attention sharpens visual acuity.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Pre-saccadic attention relies more on suppression than does covert attention.Journal of vision · 2023Article
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- Independence of implicitly guided attention from goal-driven oculomotor control.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Presaccadic attention enhances contrast sensitivity, but not at the upper vertical meridian.iScience · 2022Article
- The role of temporal cortex in the control of attention.Current research in neurobiology · 2022Review
- Eye and hand movements disrupt attentional control.PloS one · 2022Article
- Neural responses to natural visual motion are spatially selective across the visual field, with selectivity differing across brain areas and task.The European journal of neuroscience · 2021Article
- Different computations underlie overt presaccadic and covert spatial attention.Nature human behaviour · 2021Article
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Abstract
Both patients with eye movement disorders and healthy participants whose oculomotor range had been experimentally reduced have been reported to show attentional deficits at locations unreachable by their eyes. Whereas previous studies were mainly based on the evaluation of reaction times, we measured visual sensitivity before saccadic eye movements and during fixation at locations either within or beyond participants' oculomotor range. Participants rotated their heads to prevent them from performing large rightward saccades. In this posture, an attentional cue was presented inside or outside their oculomotor range. Participants either made a saccade to the cue or maintained fixation while they discriminated the orientation of a visual noise patch. In contrast to previous reports, we found that the cue attracted visual attention regardless of whether it was presented within or beyond participants' oculomotor range during both fixation and saccade preparation. Moreover, when participants aimed to look to a cue that they could not reach with their eyes, we observed no benefit at their actual saccade endpoint. This demonstrates that spatial attention is not coupled to the executed oculomotor program but instead can be deployed unrestrictedly also toward locations to which no saccade can be executed. Our results are compatible with the view that covert and overt attentional orienting are guided by feedback projections of visual and visuomotor neurons of the gaze control system, irrespective of oculomotor limitations.
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