Université de Fribourg

Asymmetric saccade reaction times to smooth pursuit

Bieg, Hans-Joachim ; Chuang, Lewis L. ; Bülthoff, Heinrich H. ; Bresciani, Jean-Pierre

In: Experimental Brain Research, 2015, vol. 233, no. 9, p. 2527–2538

Before initiating a saccade to a moving target, the brain must take into account the target’s eccentricity as well as its movement direction and speed. We tested how the kinematic characteristics of the target influence the time course of this oculomotor response. Participants performed a step-ramp task in which the target object stepped from a central to an eccentric position and moved at...