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ArticleCommunications biology2023

Perceptual decisions interfere more with eye movements than with reach movements.

Kazumichi Matsumiya, Shota Furukawa

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Article in Communications biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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  1. Post-saccadic disruption of semantic category information in naturalistic scenes.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2026
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Kazumichi MatsumiyaGraduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. matsumiya@tohoku.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3744-6762
Shota FurukawaGraduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Perceptual judgements are formed through invisible cognitive processes. Reading out these judgements is essential for advancing our understanding of decision making and requires inferring covert cognitive states based on overt motor actions. Although intuition suggests that these actions must be related to the formation of decisions about where to move body parts, actions have been reported to be influenced by perceptual judgements even when the action is irrelevant to the perceptual judgement. However, despite performing multiple actions in our daily lives, how perceptual judgements influence multiple judgement-irrelevant actions is unknown. Here we show that perceptual judgements affect only saccadic eye movements when simultaneous judgement-irrelevant saccades and reaches are made, demonstrating that perceptual judgement-related signals continuously flow into the oculomotor system alone when multiple judgement-irrelevant actions are performed. This suggests that saccades are useful for making inferences about covert perceptual decisions, even when the actions are not tied to decision making.

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Eye MovementsMovementPerceptionJudgmentSaccades

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PMID37648896
PMCPMC10468498

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