Allgemeine und Biologische Psychologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
J Neurophysiol. 2019 Oct 1;122(4):1491-1501. doi: 10.1152/jn.00420.2019. Epub 2019 Jul 31.
Across saccades, humans can integrate the low-resolution presaccadic information of an upcoming saccade target with the high-resolution postsaccadic information. There is converging evidence to suggest that transsaccadic integration occurs at the saccade target. However, given divergent evidence on the spatial specificity of related mechanisms such as attention, visual working memory, and remapping, it is unclear whether integration is also possible at locations other than the saccade target. We tested the spatial profile of transsaccadic integration, by testing perceptual performance at six locations around the saccade target and between the saccade target and initial fixation. Results show that integration benefits do not differ between the saccade target and surrounding locations. Transsaccadic integration benefits are not specific to the saccade target and can occur at other locations when they are behaviorally relevant, although there is a trend for worse performance for the location above initial fixation compared with those in the direction of the saccade. This suggests that transsaccadic integration may be a more general mechanism used to reconcile task-relevant pre- and postsaccadic information at attended locations other than the saccade target. This study shows that integration of pre- and postsaccadic information across saccades is not restricted to the saccade target. We found performance benefits of transsaccadic integration at attended locations other than the saccade target, and these benefits did not differ from those found at the saccade target. This suggests that transsaccadic integration may be a more general mechanism used to reconcile pre- and postsaccadic information at task-relevant locations.
在扫视过程中,人类可以将即将到来的扫视目标的低分辨率预扫视信息与高分辨率后扫视信息整合在一起。有越来越多的证据表明,跨扫视整合发生在扫视目标处。然而,鉴于关于相关机制(如注意力、视觉工作记忆和重映射)的空间特异性存在分歧的证据,尚不清楚整合是否也可能发生在扫视目标以外的位置。我们通过在扫视目标和初始注视点之间的六个位置以及扫视目标周围的六个位置上测试感知性能,来测试跨扫视整合的空间分布。结果表明,整合优势在扫视目标和周围位置之间没有差异。跨扫视整合优势不仅针对扫视目标,而且在行为相关的情况下,也可以在其他位置发生,尽管与扫视方向相比,初始注视点上方的位置的性能较差。这表明跨扫视整合可能是一种更通用的机制,用于协调注视点以外的与任务相关的预扫视和后扫视信息。本研究表明,扫视间的预扫视和后扫视信息的整合不仅限于扫视目标。我们发现,在扫视目标以外的注视位置上,跨扫视的信息整合具有性能优势,并且这些优势与在扫视目标上发现的优势没有差异。这表明跨扫视整合可能是一种更通用的机制,用于协调任务相关位置的预扫视和后扫视信息。