The Role of the Oculomotor System in Updating Visual-Spatial Working Memory across Saccades.

ABSTRACT: Visual-spatial working memory (VSWM) helps us to maintain and manipulate visual information in the absence of sensory input. It has been proposed that VSWM is an emergent property of the oculomotor system. In the present study we investigated the role of the oculomotor system in updating of spatial working memory representations across saccades. Participants had to maintain a location in memory while making a saccade to a different location. During the saccade the target was displaced, which went unnoticed by the participants. After executing the saccade, participants had to indicate the memorized location. If memory updating fully relies on cancellation driven by extraretinal oculomotor signals, the displacement should have no effect on the perceived location of the memorized stimulus. Ho

SUBMITTER: Boon PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5025159 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature