ReviewTrends in neurosciences2021
To look or not to look: dissociating presaccadic and covert spatial attention.
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- 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
- Attentional modulation of size perception in peripheral vision.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Imaging the spatiotemporal dynamics of covert attention with a pupillometric probing paradigm.iScience · 2026Article
- Predicting what and when across saccades: Evidence from the extrafoveal preview effect.Journal of vision · 2026Article
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- Population-Level Activity Dissociates Preparatory Overt from Covert Attention.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Beauty in the eye of the beholder: Attention to attractive faces dissociates across covert and overt measures.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- ERP evidence of attentional selection outside of effective oculomotor range.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Saccade direction modulates the temporal dynamics of presaccadic attention.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Preemptive gain control in primary visual cortex.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Vertical shifts of visuospatial attention, not (eye) movements, affect auditory pitch discrimination.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Pre-saccadic Attention (and not Arousal) modulates the Size-Eccentricity Effect.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Presaccadic attentional shifts are not modulated by saccade amplitude.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Design and validation of a rapid visual processing measure for screening reading difficulties in early childhood.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Distinct modulation of microsaccades in motor planning and covert attention.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- GABAergic Projections from the Pretectum Boost Retinogeniculate Signal Transfer via Disinhibition.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Pre-stimulus activities affect subsequent visual processing: Empirical evidence and potential neural mechanisms.Brain and behavior · 2025Review
- Saccade execution increases the preview effect with faces: An EEG and eye-tracking coregistration study.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Is covert attention necessary for programming accurate saccades? Evidence from saccade-locked event-related potentials.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Role of the Medial Posterior Parietal Cortex in Orchestrating Attention and Reaching.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
Attention is a central neural process that enables selective and efficient processing of visual information. Individuals can attend to specific visual information either overtly, by making an eye movement to an object of interest, or covertly, without moving their eyes. We review behavioral, neuropsychological, neurophysiological, and computational evidence of presaccadic attentional modulations that occur while preparing saccadic eye movements, and highlight their differences from those of covert spatial endogenous (voluntary) and exogenous (involuntary) attention. We discuss recent studies and experimental procedures on how these different types of attention impact visual performance, alter appearance, differentially modulate the featural representation of basic visual dimensions (orientation and spatial frequency), engage different neural computations, and recruit partially distinct neural substrates. We conclude that presaccadic attention and covert attention are dissociable.
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