ArticleNature communications2019
Memory-guided microsaccades.
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- 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
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- Microsaccadic suppression of peripheral perceptual detection performance as a function of foveated visual image appearance.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Comparison of adaptation characteristics between visually and memory-guided saccades.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
- Memory-Guided Saccades in Subacute and Chronic Stroke: Secondary Data Analysis of the N-PEP-12 Clinical Study.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- Linking Cognitive Integrity to Working Memory Dynamics in the Aging Human Brain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Do microsaccades vary with discriminability around the visual field?Journal of vision · 2024Article
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Abstract
Despite strong evidence to the contrary in the literature, microsaccades are overwhelmingly described as involuntary eye movements. Here we show in both human subjects and monkeys that individual microsaccades of any direction can easily be triggered: (1) on demand, based on an arbitrary instruction, (2) without any special training, (3) without visual guidance by a stimulus, and (4) in a spatially and temporally accurate manner. Subjects voluntarily generated instructed "memory-guided" microsaccades readily, and similarly to how they made normal visually-guided ones. In two monkeys, we also observed midbrain superior colliculus neurons that exhibit movement-related activity bursts exclusively for memory-guided microsaccades, but not for similarly-sized visually-guided movements. Our results demonstrate behavioral and neural evidence for voluntary control over individual microsaccades, supporting recently discovered functional contributions of individual microsaccade generation to visual performance alterations and covert visual selection, as well as observations that microsaccades optimize eye position during high acuity visually-guided behavior.
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