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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020

Low-Level Visual Information Is Maintained across Saccades, Allowing for a Postsaccadic Handoff between Visual Areas.

Jasper H Fabius, Alessio Fracasso, David J Acunzo, Stefan Van der Stigchel, David Melcher

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. The Representation of Stimulus Features during Stable Fixation and Active Vision.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  16. Fast Feature- and Category-Related Parafoveal Previewing Support Free Visual Exploration.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  17. Presaccadic preview shapes postsaccadic processing more where perception is poor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  18. Decoding Remapped Spatial Information in the Peri-Saccadic Period.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  19. Peri-Saccadic Orientation Identification Performance and Visual Neural Sensitivity Are Higher in the Upper Visual Field.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jasper H FabiusInstitute of Neuroscience and Psychology, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom jasper.fabius@glasgow.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-1356-2657
Alessio FracassoInstitute of Neuroscience and Psychology, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-4542-112X
David J AcunzoCenter for Mind/Brain Sciences and Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, I-38122 Trento, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3282-1551
Stefan Van der StigchelExperimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, 3584 CS, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
David MelcherCenter for Mind/Brain Sciences and Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, I-38122 Trento, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0926-585X

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/S006605/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Experience seems continuous and detailed despite saccadic eye movements changing retinal input several times per second. There is debate whether neural signals related to updating across saccades contain information about stimulus features, or only location pointers without visual details. We investigated the time course of low-level visual information processing across saccades by decoding the spatial frequency of a stationary stimulus that changed from one visual hemifield to the other because of a horizontal saccadic eye movement. We recorded magnetoencephalography while human subjects (both sexes) monitored the orientation of a grating stimulus, making spatial frequency task irrelevant. Separate trials, in which subjects maintained fixation, were used to train a classifier, whose performance was then tested on saccade trials. Decoding performance showed that spatial frequency information of the presaccadic stimulus remained present for ∼200 ms after the saccade, transcending retinotopic specificity. Postsaccadic information ramped up rapidly after saccade offset. There was an overlap of over 100 ms during which decoding was significant from both presaccadic and postsaccadic processing areas. This suggests that the apparent richness of perception across saccades may be supported by the continuous availability of low-level information with a "soft handoff" of information during the initial processing sweep of the new fixation.

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AdultEvoked PotentialsFemaleFixation, OcularHumansMagnetoencephalographyMaleMental ProcessesOrientationPhotic StimulationPsychomotor PerformanceSaccadesSpace PerceptionVisual CortexVisual FieldsVisual Perceptionmagnetoencephalographymultivariate pattern analysissaccadesvisionvisual stability

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PMCPMC7724139

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