The parallel programming of landing position in saccadic eye movement sequences.

ABSTRACT: Saccadic eye movements occur in sequences, gathering new information about the visual environment to support successful task completion. Here, we examine the control of these saccadic sequences and specifically the extent to which the spatial aspects of the saccadic responses are programmed in parallel. We asked participants to saccade to a series of visual targets and, while they shifted their gaze around the display, we displaced select targets. We found that saccade landing position was deviated toward the previous location of the target suggesting that partial parallel programming of target location information was occurring. The saccade landing position was also affected by the new target location, which demonstrates that the saccade landing position was also partially updated followi

SUBMITTER: McSorley E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7239640 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature