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Oculomotor inhibition precedes temporally expected auditory targets.
Trial report in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.
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47 citing papers in PubMed.
- The challenge of controlling an auditory BCI in the case of severe motor disability.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2024Trial
- Introduction to the Special Issue: Eye movements as windows to the mind: The integration of eye movements, perception, attention, and cognition-Honoring the contributions of Eileen Kowler.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Pre-stimulus microsaccadic inhibition reflects both temporal and sensory expectations.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Blinks are strategically coupled with head movements in unconstrained natural gaze behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Learned statistical regularity modulates anticipatory micro-saccades toward suppressed distractor locations.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Microsaccadic modulation in goal-directed reaching.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- The Interplay of Bottom-Up Arousal and Attentional Capture during Auditory Scene Analysis: Evidence from Ocular Dynamics.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Dissociable Pupil and Oculomotor Markers of Attention Allocation and Distractor Suppression during Listening.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Perceptual punctuation: fixational eye movements reveal segmentation of auditory streams.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- What is prepared in temporal preparation? A review and a historical appreciation.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Microsaccade Activity During Visuospatial Working Memory in Early-Stage Parkinson's Disease.Journal of eye movement research · 2025Article
- Children with Autism Show Impaired Oculomotor Entrainment to Predictable Stimuli.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Temporal attention and oculomotor effects dissociate distinct types of temporal expectation.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Sleuthing subjectivity: a review of covert measures of consciousness.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Eyes on hold: motion task difficulty jointly delays microsaccade and pupil responses.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Distinct modulation of microsaccades in motor planning and covert attention.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Eyes on the past: Gaze stability differs between temporal expectation and temporal attention.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Neural speech tracking in noise reflects the opposing influence of SNR on intelligibility and attentional effort.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Fixational saccade inhibition and pupil dilation during self-paced limb movement preparation.PloS one · 2025Article
- Do microsaccades vary with discriminability around the visual field?Journal of vision · 2024Article
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Abstract
Eye movements are inhibited prior to the onset of temporally-predictable visual targets. This oculomotor inhibition effect could be considered a marker for the formation of temporal expectations and the allocation of temporal attention in the visual domain. Here we show that eye movements are also inhibited before predictable auditory targets. In two experiments, we manipulate the period between a cue and an auditory target to be either predictable or unpredictable. The findings show that although there is no perceptual gain from avoiding gaze-shifts in this procedure, saccades and blinks are inhibited prior to predictable relative to unpredictable auditory targets. These findings show that oculomotor inhibition occurs prior to auditory targets. This link between auditory expectation and oculomotor behavior reveals a multimodal perception action coupling, which has a central role in temporal expectations.
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