ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Fast and nonuniform dynamics of perisaccadic vision in the central fovea.
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- Spatial and Temporal Factors Influencing Fixational Saccades.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Residual Foveal Motion Facilitates Processing of Visually Tracked Objects.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Pre-microsaccadic Modulation in Foveal V1: Enhancement in the Current and Future Stimulus Locations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- 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
- The Effect of Microsaccades in the Primary Visual Cortex: Increased Synchronization in the Fovea during a Two-Phase Response Modulation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Microsaccadic suppression of peripheral perceptual detection performance as a function of foveated visual image appearance.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Ultra-fine resolution of pre-saccadic attention in the fovea.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Topographic organization across foveal visual areas in macaques.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2024Article
- 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
- Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Inferring visual space from ultra-fine extra-retinal knowledge of gaze position.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Eye Tracking in Optometry: A Systematic Review.Journal of eye movement research · 2023Article
- Fixational eye movements in passive versus active sustained fixation tasks.Journal of vision · 2021Article
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Abstract
Humans use rapid eye movements (saccades) to inspect stimuli with the foveola, the region of the retina where receptors are most densely packed. It is well established that visual sensitivity is generally attenuated during these movements, a phenomenon known as saccadic suppression. This effect is commonly studied with large, often peripheral, stimuli presented during instructed saccades. However, little is known about how saccades modulate the foveola and how the resulting dynamics unfold during natural visual exploration. Here we measured the foveal dynamics of saccadic suppression in a naturalistic high-acuity task, a task designed after primates' social grooming, which-like most explorations of fine patterns-primarily elicits minute saccades (microsaccades). Leveraging on recent advances in gaze-contingent display control, we were able to systematically map the perisaccadic time course of sensitivity across the foveola. We show that contrast sensitivity is not uniform across this region and that both the extent and dynamics of saccadic suppression vary within the foveola. Suppression is stronger and faster in the most central portion, where sensitivity is generally higher and selectively rebounds at the onset of a new fixation. These results shed light on the modulations experienced by foveal vision during the saccade-fixation cycle and explain some of the benefits of microsaccades.
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