Microsaccades reflect attention shifts: a mini review of 20 years of microsaccade research

Q Gu, Q Zhang, Y Han, P Li, Z Gao, M Shen - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Microsaccades are small, involuntary eye movements that occur during fixation. Since the
1950s, researchers have conducted extensive research on the role of microsaccades in …

Depression and cognitive impairment: current understanding of its neurobiology and diagnosis

M Wen, Z Dong, L Zhang, B Li, Y Zhang… - … Disease and Treatment, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background Eye movement is critical for obtaining precise visual information and providing
sensorimotor processes and advanced cognitive functions to the brain behavioral indicator …

Microsaccades are directed toward the midpoint between targets in a variably cued attention task

SM Willett, JP Mayo - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - pnas.org
Reliable, noninvasive biomarkers that reveal the internal state of a subject are an invaluable
tool for neurological diagnoses. Small fixational eye movements, called microsaccades, are …

Attentional shifts bias microsaccade direction but do not cause new microsaccades

B Liu, ZS Alexopoulou, F van Ede - Communications Psychology, 2024 - nature.com
Brain circuitry that controls where we look also contributes to attentional selection of visual
contents outside current fixation, or content within the spatial layout of working memory. A …

Microsaccades as a long-term oculomotor correlate in visual perceptual learning

SC Hung, M Carrasco - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2023 - Springer
Human perceptual learning, experience-induced gains in sensory discrimination, typically
yields long-term performance improvements. Recent research revealed long-lasting transfer …

Visual perceptual learning modulates microsaccade rate and directionality

SC Hung, A Barbot, M Carrasco - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Microsaccades, incessant “fixational eye movements”(< 1°), are an important window into
cognitive functions. Yet, its role in visual perceptual learning (VPL)–improvements in visual …

Reply to van Ede: Pulling on the threads of microsaccades and attention: What's left?

SM Willett, JP Mayo - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - pnas.org
Microsaccades—small fixational eye movements—are fundamental to visual processing.
They result from several competing influences like maintenance of fixation accuracy (1) …

Attention and microsaccades: do attention shifts trigger new microsaccades or only bias ongoing microsaccades?

B Liu, ZS Alexopoulou, F van Ede - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Brain circuitry that controls where we look also contributes to attentional focusing of visual
contents outside of current fixation or contents held within the spatial layout of working …

[HTML][HTML] Do microsaccades vary with discriminability around the visual field?

S Purokayastha, M Roberts, M Carrasco - Journal of vision, 2024 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Microsaccades—tiny fixational eye movements—improve discriminability in high-acuity
tasks in the foveola. To investigate whether they help compensate for low discriminability at …

Microsaccade direction reveals the variation in auditory selective attention processes

S Yamagishi, S Furukawa - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Selective spatial attention plays a critical role in perception in the daily environment where
multiple sensory stimuli exist. Even covertly directing attention to a specific location …