| Paper: | PS-1B.40 | ||
| Session: | Poster Session 1B | ||
| Location: | H Fläche 1.OG | ||
| Session Time: | Saturday, September 14, 16:30 - 19:30 | ||
| Presentation Time: | Saturday, September 14, 16:30 - 19:30 | ||
| Presentation: | Poster | ||
| Publication: | 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 13-16 September 2019, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Paper Title: | Microsaccade Patterns Evolve During Learning of a Covert Spatial Attention Task | ||
| Manuscript: | Click here to view manuscript | ||
| License: |  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.32470/CCN.2019.1331-0 | ||
| Authors: | Marie Bellet, Lenka Seillier, Katrina Quinn, Katsuhisa Kawaguchi, Joachim Bellet, Ziad Hafed, Hendrikje Nienborg, University of Tuebingen, Germany | ||
| Abstract: | Studies in humans and monkeys have shown that small eye movements during fixation systematically vary with cued spatial attention. However, it remains unclear how these microsaccades relate to spatial attention in the absence of visual cues, which themselves impact microsaccade directions. Here, we investigated microsaccade properties of three macaque monkeys during learning of a blocked spatial attention task. Even without a visual cue immediately preceding each trial, microsaccade directions showed a clear dependency on the locus of spatial attention. We furthermore found that this relationship developed with learning of the task. Our results indicate that the link between microsaccades and spatial attention is subject to dynamic changes during training. Together, our findings provide further support for the view that microsaccades are meaningfully involved in cognition. | ||