ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Modulations of foveal vision associated with microsaccade preparation.
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- Topographic organization across foveal visual areas in macaques.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2024Article
- Microsaccades reflect attention shifts: a mini review of 20 years of microsaccade research.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- An eye for detail: Eye movements and attention at the foveal scale.Vision research · 2023Article
- High-resolution eye-tracking via digital imaging of Purkinje reflections.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Microsaccades transiently lateralise EEG alpha activity.Progress in neurobiology · 2023Article
- Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- V1-bypassing suppression leads to direction-specific microsaccade modulation in visual coding and perception.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Fast and nonuniform dynamics of perisaccadic vision in the central fovea.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
It is known that attention shifts prior to a saccade to start processing the saccade target before it lands in the foveola, the high-resolution region of the retina. Yet, once the target is foveated, microsaccades, tiny saccades maintaining the fixated object within the fovea, continue to occur. What is the link between these eye movements and attention? There is growing evidence that these eye movements are associated with covert shifts of attention in the visual periphery, when the attended stimuli are presented far from the center of gaze. Yet, microsaccades are primarily used to explore complex foveal stimuli and to optimize fine spatial vision in the foveola, suggesting that the influences of microsaccades on attention may predominantly impact vision at this scale. To address this question we tracked gaze position with high precision and briefly presented high-acuity stimuli at predefined foveal locations right before microsaccade execution. Our results show that visual discrimination changes prior to microsaccade onset. An enhancement occurs at the microsaccade target location. This modulation is highly selective and it is coupled with a drastic impairment at the opposite foveal location, just a few arcminutes away. This effect is strongest when stimuli are presented closer to the eye movement onset time. These findings reveal that the link between attention and microsaccades is deeper than previously thought, exerting its strongest effects within the foveola. As a result, during fixation, foveal vision is constantly being reshaped both in space and in time with the occurrence of microsaccades.
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