TY - JOUR
T1 - All is not lost : post-saccadic contributions to the perceptual omission of intra-saccadic streaks
AU - Balsdon, T.
AU - Schweitzer, R.
AU - Watson, T. L.
AU - Rolfs, M.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - saccadic eye movements
UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:48729
U2 - 10.1016/j.concog.2018.05.004
DO - 10.1016/j.concog.2018.05.004
M3 - Article
SN - 1053-8100
VL - 64
SP - 19
EP - 31
JO - Consciousness and Cognition
JF - Consciousness and Cognition
ER -