All is not lost: Post-saccadic contributions to the perceptual omission of intra-saccadic streaks
Autor: | Richard Schweitzer, Martin Rolfs, Tarryn Balsdon, Tamara L. Watson |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
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Motion Perception Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Stimulus (physiology) 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Perception Distraction Developmental and Educational Psychology Saccades Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Backward masking media_common 05 social sciences Eye movement Saccadic masking Jerk Space Perception Saccade Psychology Perceptual Masking 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
Zdroj: | Consciousness and cognition. 64 |
ISSN: | 1090-2376 |
Popis: | Saccades rapidly jerk the eye into new positions, yet we rarely experience the motion streaks imposed on the retinal image. Here we examined spatial and temporal properties of post-saccadic masking-one potential explanation of this perceptual omission. Observers judged the motion direction of a target stimulus, a Gaussian blob, that moved vertically upwards or downwards and then back to its initial position, just as observers made a saccade. We manipulated the onset and offset of the target and of distractors in various spatial relations to the target, and assessed their effect on performance and subjective confidence. Although the presence of the target after the saccade caused the strongest omission, the offset of spatially distant distractor stimuli upon saccade offset also impaired performance. The temporal properties of these two separate effects suggest that, in addition to masking, an independent effect of attentional distraction further accentuates perceptual omission of intra-saccadic motion streaks. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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