A nearby distractor does not influence hand movements.

When interacting with the environment, our manual actions are often preceded by an eye movement. This suggests that the processes underlying target selection in hand and eye movements may be coupled. It is known that when a distractor is presented close to a target, the endpoint of an eye movement will be biased towards the distractor.

A Neuroanatomically Grounded Optimal Control Model of the Compensatory Eye Movement System in Mice.

We present a working model of the compensatory eye movement system in mice. We challenge the model with a data set of eye movements in mice ( =34) recorded in 4 different sinusoidal stimulus conditions with 36 different combinations of frequency (0.1-3.

Visual information is required to reduce the global effect.

When a distractor appears in close proximity to a saccade target, the saccadic end point is biased towards the distractor. This so-called global effect reduces with the latency of the saccade if the saccade is visually guided. We recently reported that the global effect does not reduce with the latency of a double-step memory-guided saccade.

The Limits of Predictive Remapping of Attention Across Eye Movements.

With every eye movement, visual input projected onto our retina changes drastically. The fundamental question of how we keep track of relevant objects and movement targets has puzzled scientists for more than a century. Recent advances suggested that this can be accomplished through the process of predictive remapping of visual attention to the future post-saccadic locations of relevant objects.

Target-distractor competition cannot be resolved across a saccade.

When a distractor is presented in close spatial proximity to a target, a saccade tends to land in between the two objects rather than on the target. This robust phenomenon (also referred to as the global effect) is thought to reflect unresolved competition between target and distractor. It is unclear whether this landing bias persists across saccades since a saccade displaces the retinotopic representations of target and distractor.