Publications by authors named "Devin Heinze Kehoe"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how sudden visual distractors influence saccade trajectories, specifically how attention shifts during planned gaze movements can be altered by unexpected stimuli.
- Researchers recorded activity from neurons in the frontal eye field of monkeys to show that the strength of neuron activity correlates with the direction of curvature in saccades, either towards or away from the distractor.
- Findings reveal that neural responses vary based on the distractor’s position and timing, suggesting a complex interplay of attraction and repulsion in saccadic planning, with implications for understanding and diagnosing saccade-related disorders.
Selective attention filters irrelevant information entering our brain to allow for fine-tuning of the relevant information processing. In the visual domain, shifts of attention are most often followed by a saccadic eye movement to objects and places of high relevance. Recent studies have shown that the stimulus color can affect saccade target selection and saccade trajectories.
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