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Home Research Topics Microsaccades Ohl et al. (in press, VisionRes). Secondary (micro-) saccades: The influence of primary saccade end point and target eccentricity on the process of postsaccadic fixation

Ohl et al. (in press, VisionRes). Secondary (micro-) saccades: The influence of primary saccade end point and target eccentricity on the process of postsaccadic fixation

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Ohl, S., Brandt, S.A., & Kliegl, R. (2011, September 16). Secondary (micro-) saccades: The influence of primary saccade end point and target eccentricity on the process of postsaccadic fixation. Vision Research

Abstract. We examine how the size of saccadic under-/overshoot and target eccentricity influence the latency, amplitude and orientation of secondary (micro-)saccades. In our experiment a target appeared at an eccentricity of either 6 or 14 degree of visual angle. Subjects were instructed to direct their gaze as quickly as possible to the target and hold fixation at the new location until the end of the trial. Typically, increasing saccadic error is associated with faster and larger secondary saccades. We show that secondary saccades at distant in contrast to close targets have in a specific error range a shorter latency, larger amplitude, and follow more often the direction of the primary saccade. Finally, we demonstrate that an undershooting primary saccade is followed almost exclusively by secondary saccades into the same direction while overshooting primary saccades are followed by secondary saccades into both directions. This supports the notion that under- and overshooting imply different consequences for postsaccadic oculomotor processing. Results are discussed using a model, introduced by Rolfs et al. (2008), to account for the generation of microsaccades. We argue that the dynamic interplay of target eccentricity and the magnitude of the saccadic under-/overshoot can be explained by a different strength of activation in the two hemispheres of the saccadic motor map in this model.

DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.09.005 copyright. Elsevier

 

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