Attention and saccadic eye movements.

Four threshold detection experiments addressed three issues concerning the relationship between movements of spatial attention and saccadic eye movements: (a) the time course of attention shifts wit saccades, (b) the response of the two systems to changes in stimulus parameters, and (c) the relationship of attention to saccadic suppression. These issues bear on the more general question of the degree of independence between the saccadic and attentional movement systems. The results of these experiments support the contention that the mechanisms that shift attention are separate from those that control saccadic eye movements. Relevant events in the visual field periphery, however, will trigger both a saccade and attention shift. The attentional response to such events does not appear to be under subjects' control. The implication of these results for theories of saccadic suppression is discussed.

[1]  F C VOLKMANN,et al.  Vision during voluntary saccadic eye movements. , 1962, Journal of the Optical Society of America.

[2]  P. Latour.  Visual threshold during eye movements , 1962 .

[3]  G. Schneider,et al.  Contrasting visuomotor functions of tectum and cortex in the golden hamster , 1967, Psychologische Forschung.

[4]  C. Trevarthen,et al.  Two mechanisms of vision in primates , 1968, Psychologische Forschung.

[5]  F. C. Volkmann,et al.  Time course of visual inhibition during voluntary saccades. , 1968, Journal of the Optical Society of America.

[6]  M. Russell Harter,et al.  Effects of attention and arousal on visually evoked cortical potentials and reaction time in man , 1969 .

[7]  L. Matin,et al.  Visual perception of direction when voluntary saccades occur. I. Relation of visual direction of a fixation target extinguished before a saccade to a flash presented during the saccade , 1969 .

[8]  F. L. Engel.  Visual conspicuity, directed attention and retinal locus. , 1971, Vision research.

[9]  C. Eriksen,et al.  Temporal and spatial characteristics of selective encoding from visual displays , 1972 .

[10]  R. Wurtz,et al.  Activity of superior colliculus in behaving monkey. II. Effect of attention on neuronal responses. , 1972, Journal of neurophysiology.

[11]  Charles Curtis Eriksen,et al.  The extent of processing of noise elements during selective encoding from visual displays , 1973 .

[12]  C. Eriksen,et al.  Selective encoding from multielement visual displays , 1973 .

[13]  C. Eriksen,et al.  Effects of noise letters upon the identification of a target letter in a nonsearch task , 1974 .

[14]  E. Matin.  Saccadic suppression: a review and an analysis. , 1974, Psychological bulletin.

[15]  L. Riggs,et al.  Suppression of visual phosphenes during saccadic eye movements. , 1974, Vision research.

[16]  F. L. Engel.  Visual conspicuity and selective background interference in eccentric vision. , 1974, Vision research.

[17]  Michael I. Posner,et al.  Chapter 15 – Psychobiology of Attention , 1975 .

[18]  R. Wurtz,et al.  Organization of monkey superior colliculus: enhanced visual response of superficial layer cells. , 1976, Journal of neurophysiology.

[19]  R H Wurtz,et al.  Organization of monkey superior colliculus: intermediate layer cells discharging before eye movements. , 1976, Journal of neurophysiology.

[20]  S. Hillyard,et al.  Visual evoked potentials and selective attention to points in space , 1977 .

[21]  M. Shaw,et al.  Optimal allocation of cognitive resources to spatial locations. , 1977, Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance.

[22]  D. Robinson,et al.  Parietal association cortex in the primate: sensory mechanisms and behavioral modulations. , 1978, Journal of neurophysiology.

[23]  G. Shulman,et al.  Moving attention through visual space. , 1979, Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance.

[24]  M. Posner,et al.  Orienting of Attention* , 1980, The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology.