Commentary: Attentional tradeoffs maintain the tracking of moving objects across saccades.

Kieran Gallagher

doi:10.3389/fnsys.2015.00188

Abstract

Commentary: Attentional tradeoffs maintain the tracking of moving objects across saccades.

Highlights

We constantly move our eyes, yet our perception of the world is stable due to compensatory neuronal mechanisms that occur around the time of saccades
A key part of the task is that the circles opposite to the tracked location lie in the location where attention is remapped as a result of the saccade
Performance decreased at the tracked location prior to saccade onset, and the authors interpreted this as support for attentional remapping

Summary

Introduction

We constantly move our eyes, yet our perception of the world is stable due to compensatory neuronal mechanisms that occur around the time of saccades. Szinte et al (2015) focus on how attention shifts around the time of saccades during attentive tracking in a dynamic display. Subjects attentively track an object in a clockwise direction, while fixating on a target in the center (Figure 1A).

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