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Saccadic target selection as a function of time

Saccadic target selection as a function of time Spatial Vision , Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 61 – 76 (2006)  VSP 2006. Also available online - www.vsppub.com Saccadic target selection as a function of time WIESKE VAN ZOEST ∗ and MIEKE DONK Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, van der Boechorststraat 1 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands Received 19 January 2005; accepted 15 August 2005 Abstract —Recent evidence indicates that stimulus-driven and goal-directed control of visual selec- tion operate independently and in different time windows (van Zoest et al ., 2004). The present study further investigates how eye movements are affected by stimulus-driven and goal-directed control. Observers were presented with search displays consisting of one target, multiple non-targets and one distractor element. The task of observers was to make a fast eye movement to a target immediately following the offset of a central fixation point, an event that either co-occurred with or soon followed the presentation of the search display. Distractor saliency and target-distractor similarity were inde- pendently manipulated. The results demonstrated that the effect of distractor saliency was transient and only present for the fastest eye movements, whereas the effect of target-distractor similarity was sustained and present in all but the fastest eye http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Spatial Vision (continued as Seeing & Perceiving from 2010) Brill

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© 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Spatial Vision , Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 61 – 76 (2006)  VSP 2006. Also available online - www.vsppub.com Saccadic target selection as a function of time WIESKE VAN ZOEST ∗ and MIEKE DONK Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, van der Boechorststraat 1 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands Received 19 January 2005; accepted 15 August 2005 Abstract —Recent evidence indicates that stimulus-driven and goal-directed control of visual selec- tion operate independently and in different time windows (van Zoest et al ., 2004). The present study further investigates how eye movements are affected by stimulus-driven and goal-directed control. Observers were presented with search displays consisting of one target, multiple non-targets and one distractor element. The task of observers was to make a fast eye movement to a target immediately following the offset of a central fixation point, an event that either co-occurred with or soon followed the presentation of the search display. Distractor saliency and target-distractor similarity were inde- pendently manipulated. The results demonstrated that the effect of distractor saliency was transient and only present for the fastest eye movements, whereas the effect of target-distractor similarity was sustained and present in all but the fastest eye

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Spatial Vision (continued as Seeing & Perceiving from 2010) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2006

Keywords: GOAL-DRIVEN CONTROL; SACCADIC VISUAL SELECTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; STIMULUS-DRIVEN CONTROL; BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN; ATTENTION

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