Abstract
Threshold modulations for sinusoidal gratings tachistoscopically presented on the fovea after a saccade were determined as a function of the spatial frequency of a peripheral grating at the saccade goal and compared with thresholds of the "resting eye" condition. The results show a clear enhancement for medium spatial frequency gratings (3.2 c/deg) with peripheral gratings of the same spatial frequency. Therefore an information transfer from periphery to centre induced by saccadic eye movements is suggested. Suppression of low spatial frequency gratings (0.5 c/deg) is found to be independent from additional peripheral gratings and interpreted as an effect of a central inhibitory process elicited by the saccadic motor command. Some aspects concerning saccadic suppression, refixation, and visual stability are considered.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1173-1179 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Vision Research |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1978 |
Keywords
- saccadic suppression
- visibility of gratings
- vision