Suppression of Face Perception during Saccadic Eye Movements
Lack of awareness of a stimulus briefly presented during saccadic eye movement is known as saccadic omission. Studying the reduced visibility of visual stimuli around the time of saccade—known as saccadic suppression—is a key step to investigate saccadic omission. To date, almost all studies have be...
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| description | Lack of awareness of a stimulus briefly presented during saccadic eye movement is known as saccadic omission. Studying the reduced visibility of visual stimuli around the time of saccade—known as saccadic suppression—is a key step to investigate saccadic omission. To date, almost all studies have been focused on the reduced visibility of simple stimuli such as flashes and bars. The extension of the results from simple stimuli to more complex objects has been neglected. In two experimental tasks, we measured the subjective and objective awareness of a briefly presented face stimuli during saccadic eye movement. In the first task, we measured the subjective awareness of the visual stimuli and showed that in most of the trials there is no conscious awareness of the faces. In the second task, we measured objective sensitivity in a two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) face detection task, which demonstrated chance-level performance. Here, we provide the first evidence of complete suppression of complex visual stimuli during the saccadic eye movement. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-144e283d2a604afa896ca5c24de2c57e2025-02-03T01:02:11ZengWileyJournal of Ophthalmology2090-004X2090-00582014-01-01201410.1155/2014/384510384510Suppression of Face Perception during Saccadic Eye MovementsMehrdad Seirafi0Peter De Weerd1Beatrice de Gelder2Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, 5037 AB Tilburg, The NetherlandsDepartment of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6229 EV Maastricht, The NetherlandsCognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, 5037 AB Tilburg, The NetherlandsLack of awareness of a stimulus briefly presented during saccadic eye movement is known as saccadic omission. Studying the reduced visibility of visual stimuli around the time of saccade—known as saccadic suppression—is a key step to investigate saccadic omission. To date, almost all studies have been focused on the reduced visibility of simple stimuli such as flashes and bars. The extension of the results from simple stimuli to more complex objects has been neglected. In two experimental tasks, we measured the subjective and objective awareness of a briefly presented face stimuli during saccadic eye movement. In the first task, we measured the subjective awareness of the visual stimuli and showed that in most of the trials there is no conscious awareness of the faces. In the second task, we measured objective sensitivity in a two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) face detection task, which demonstrated chance-level performance. Here, we provide the first evidence of complete suppression of complex visual stimuli during the saccadic eye movement.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/384510 |
| spellingShingle | Mehrdad Seirafi Peter De Weerd Beatrice de Gelder Suppression of Face Perception during Saccadic Eye Movements Journal of Ophthalmology |
| title | Suppression of Face Perception during Saccadic Eye Movements |
| title_full | Suppression of Face Perception during Saccadic Eye Movements |
| title_fullStr | Suppression of Face Perception during Saccadic Eye Movements |
| title_full_unstemmed | Suppression of Face Perception during Saccadic Eye Movements |
| title_short | Suppression of Face Perception during Saccadic Eye Movements |
| title_sort | suppression of face perception during saccadic eye movements |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/384510 |
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