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Presaccadic attention enhances contrast sensitivity, but not at the upper vertical meridian.
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- Asymmetries in Foveal Vision.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Chromatic and achromatic contrast sensitivity in the far periphery.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Presaccadic attentional shifts are not modulated by saccade amplitude.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Effort drives saccade selection.eLife · 2025Article
- Presaccadic Attention Shifts Up- and Downwards: Evidence From the Pupil Light Response.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Scanpath EEG dynamic, a new perspective for neuroaesthetic connoisseurship in paintings.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Asymmetries in foveal vision.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Presaccadic preview shapes postsaccadic processing more where perception is poor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Effects of spatial location on distractor interference.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Presaccadic Attention Enhances and Reshapes the Contrast Sensitivity Function Differentially around the Visual Field.eNeuro · 2024Article
- Presaccadic Attention Depends on Eye Movement Direction and Is Related to V1 Cortical Magnification.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Ultra-fine resolution of pre-saccadic attention in the fovea.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
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Abstract
Visual performance has striking polar performance asymmetries: At a fixed eccentricity, it is better along the horizontal than vertical meridian and the lower than upper vertical meridian. These asymmetries are not alleviated by covert exogenous or endogenous attention, but have been studied exclusively during eye fixation. However, a major driver of everyday attentional orienting is saccade preparation, during which attention automatically shifts to the future eye fixation. This presaccadic attention shift is considered strong and compulsory, and relies on different neural computations and substrates than covert attention. Thus, we asked: Can presaccadic attention compensate for the ubiquitous performance asymmetries observed during eye fixation? Our data replicate polar performance asymmetries during fixation and document the same asymmetries during saccade preparation. Crucially, however, presaccadic attention enhanced contrast sensitivity at the horizontal and lower vertical meridian, but not at the upper vertical meridian. Thus, instead of attenuating performance asymmetries, presaccadic attention exacerbates them.
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