Systematic diagonal and vertical errors in antisaccades and memory-guided saccades

Studies of memory-guided saccades in monkeys show an upward bias, while studies of antisaccades in humans show a diagonal effect, a deviation of endpoints toward the 45° diagonal. To determine if these two different spatial biases are specific to different types of saccades, we studied prosaccades,...

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Main Authors: Mathias Abegg, Hyung Lee, Jason J. S. Barton
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-09-01
Series:Journal of Eye Movement Research
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Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2299
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description Studies of memory-guided saccades in monkeys show an upward bias, while studies of antisaccades in humans show a diagonal effect, a deviation of endpoints toward the 45° diagonal. To determine if these two different spatial biases are specific to different types of saccades, we studied prosaccades, antisaccades and memory-guided saccades in humans. The diagonal effect occurred not with prosaccades but with antisaccades and memory-guided saccades with long intervals, consistent with hypotheses that it originates in computations of goal location under conditions of uncertainty. There was a small upward bias for memory-guided saccades but not prosaccades or antisaccades. Thus this bias is not a general effect of target uncertainty but a property specific to memory-guided saccades.
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spelling doaj-art-9aa0da5ce28c41979d419d59c274cc7c2025-08-20T03:19:39ZengMDPI AGJournal of Eye Movement Research1995-86922010-09-013310.16910/jemr.3.3.5Systematic diagonal and vertical errors in antisaccades and memory-guided saccadesMathias Abegg0Hyung Lee1Jason J. S. Barton2University of BernKeimyung UniversityUniversity of British ColumbiaStudies of memory-guided saccades in monkeys show an upward bias, while studies of antisaccades in humans show a diagonal effect, a deviation of endpoints toward the 45° diagonal. To determine if these two different spatial biases are specific to different types of saccades, we studied prosaccades, antisaccades and memory-guided saccades in humans. The diagonal effect occurred not with prosaccades but with antisaccades and memory-guided saccades with long intervals, consistent with hypotheses that it originates in computations of goal location under conditions of uncertainty. There was a small upward bias for memory-guided saccades but not prosaccades or antisaccades. Thus this bias is not a general effect of target uncertainty but a property specific to memory-guided saccades.https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2299saccadebiasaccuracy
spellingShingle Mathias Abegg
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Systematic diagonal and vertical errors in antisaccades and memory-guided saccades
Journal of Eye Movement Research
saccade
bias
accuracy
title Systematic diagonal and vertical errors in antisaccades and memory-guided saccades
title_full Systematic diagonal and vertical errors in antisaccades and memory-guided saccades
title_fullStr Systematic diagonal and vertical errors in antisaccades and memory-guided saccades
title_full_unstemmed Systematic diagonal and vertical errors in antisaccades and memory-guided saccades
title_short Systematic diagonal and vertical errors in antisaccades and memory-guided saccades
title_sort systematic diagonal and vertical errors in antisaccades and memory guided saccades
topic saccade
bias
accuracy
url https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2299
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