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Are predictive saccades linked to the processing of peripheral information?
High-level athletes can predict the actions of an opposing player. Interestingly, such predictions are also reflected by the athlete’s gaze behavior. In cricket, for example, players first pursue the ball with their eyes before they very often initiate two predictive saccades: one to the predicted b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10227171/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36167931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01743-2 |
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description | High-level athletes can predict the actions of an opposing player. Interestingly, such predictions are also reflected by the athlete’s gaze behavior. In cricket, for example, players first pursue the ball with their eyes before they very often initiate two predictive saccades: one to the predicted ball-bounce point and a second to the predicted ball-bat-contact point. That means, they move their eyes ahead of the ball and “wait” for the ball at the new fixation location, potentially using their peripheral vision to update information about the ball’s trajectory. In this study, we investigated whether predictive saccades are linked to the processing of information in peripheral vision and if predictive saccades are superior to continuously following the ball with foveal vision using smooth-pursuit eye-movements (SPEMs). In the first two experiments, we evoked the typical eye-movements observed in cricket and showed that the information gathered during SPEMs is sufficient to predict when the moving object will hit the target location and that (additional) peripheral monitoring of the object does not help to improve performance. In a third experiment, we show that it could actually be beneficial to use SPEMs rather than predictive saccades to improve performance. Thus, predictive saccades ahead of a target are unlikely to be performed to enhance the peripheral monitoring of target. |
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spelling | pubmed-102271712023-05-31 Are predictive saccades linked to the processing of peripheral information? Vater, Christian Mann, David L. Psychol Res Original Article High-level athletes can predict the actions of an opposing player. Interestingly, such predictions are also reflected by the athlete’s gaze behavior. In cricket, for example, players first pursue the ball with their eyes before they very often initiate two predictive saccades: one to the predicted ball-bounce point and a second to the predicted ball-bat-contact point. That means, they move their eyes ahead of the ball and “wait” for the ball at the new fixation location, potentially using their peripheral vision to update information about the ball’s trajectory. In this study, we investigated whether predictive saccades are linked to the processing of information in peripheral vision and if predictive saccades are superior to continuously following the ball with foveal vision using smooth-pursuit eye-movements (SPEMs). In the first two experiments, we evoked the typical eye-movements observed in cricket and showed that the information gathered during SPEMs is sufficient to predict when the moving object will hit the target location and that (additional) peripheral monitoring of the object does not help to improve performance. In a third experiment, we show that it could actually be beneficial to use SPEMs rather than predictive saccades to improve performance. Thus, predictive saccades ahead of a target are unlikely to be performed to enhance the peripheral monitoring of target. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-09-27 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10227171/ /pubmed/36167931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01743-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Vater, Christian Mann, David L. Are predictive saccades linked to the processing of peripheral information? |
title | Are predictive saccades linked to the processing of peripheral information? |
title_full | Are predictive saccades linked to the processing of peripheral information? |
title_fullStr | Are predictive saccades linked to the processing of peripheral information? |
title_full_unstemmed | Are predictive saccades linked to the processing of peripheral information? |
title_short | Are predictive saccades linked to the processing of peripheral information? |
title_sort | are predictive saccades linked to the processing of peripheral information? |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10227171/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36167931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01743-2 |
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