Temporal and spatial characteristics of visual suppression during voluntary saccadic eye movement.

Abstract An experimental arrangement enables the presentation of stimuli on different places of the retina with variable delays during voluntary saccades. The percentage of stimuli seen in a trial under definite conditions is taken as a measure of vision. Distribution of the visual suppression during voluntary saccade on different places of the retina was obtained. The fovea centralis is not always the most sensitive part of the retina. Data, that both the degree and the time-course of the suppression of different parts of the retina vary during the saccade are given.