IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pone00/0052955.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A Role of Eye Vergence in Covert Attention

Author

Listed:
  • Maria Solé Puig
  • Laura Pérez Zapata
  • J Antonio Aznar-Casanova
  • Hans Supèr

Abstract

Covert spatial attention produces biases in perceptual and neural responses in the absence of overt orienting movements. The neural mechanism that gives rise to these effects is poorly understood. Here we report the relation between fixational eye movements, namely eye vergence, and covert attention. Visual stimuli modulate the angle of eye vergence as a function of their ability to capture attention. This illustrates the relation between eye vergence and bottom-up attention. In visual and auditory cue/no-cue paradigms, the angle of vergence is greater in the cue condition than in the no-cue condition. This shows a top-down attention component. In conclusion, observations reveal a close link between covert attention and modulation in eye vergence during eye fixation. Our study suggests a basis for the use of eye vergence as a tool for measuring attention and may provide new insights into attention and perceptual disorders.

Suggested Citation

  • Maria Solé Puig & Laura Pérez Zapata & J Antonio Aznar-Casanova & Hans Supèr, 2013. "A Role of Eye Vergence in Covert Attention," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(1), pages 1-10, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0052955
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052955
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0052955
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0052955&type=printable
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1371/journal.pone.0052955?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Prakash Kara & Jamie D. Boyd, 2009. "A micro-architecture for binocular disparity and ocular dominance in visual cortex," Nature, Nature, vol. 458(7238), pages 627-631, April.
    2. B. G. Cumming & A. J. Parker, 1997. "Responses of primary visual cortical neurons to binocular disparity without depth perception," Nature, Nature, vol. 389(6648), pages 280-283, September.
    3. Paul D. Gamlin & Kyunghee Yoon, 2000. "An area for vergence eye movement in primate frontal cortex," Nature, Nature, vol. 407(6807), pages 1003-1007, October.
    4. G. S. Masson & C. Busettini & F. A. Miles, 1997. "Vergence eye movements in response to binocular disparity without depth perception," Nature, Nature, vol. 389(6648), pages 283-286, September.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Rebecca L Hornsey & Paul B Hibbard & Peter Scarfe, 2016. "Binocular Depth Judgments on Smoothly Curved Surfaces," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(11), pages 1-18, November.
    2. Antoine Barbot & Anasuya Das & Michael D. Melnick & Matthew R. Cavanaugh & Elisha P. Merriam & David J. Heeger & Krystel R. Huxlin, 2021. "Spared perilesional V1 activity underlies training-induced recovery of luminance detection sensitivity in cortically-blind patients," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-18, December.
    3. Phillip A Romo & Natalie Zeater & Chun Wang & Bogdan Dreher, 2014. "Binocular Neurons in Parastriate Cortex: Interocular ‘Matching’ of Receptive Field Properties, Eye Dominance and Strength of Silent Suppression," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(6), pages 1-17, June.
    4. Gross, Eitan, 2015. "Classification error analysis in stereo vision," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 430(C), pages 1-10.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0052955. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: plosone (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.