S. Dunne
Rewards modulate saccade latency but not exogenous spatial attention
Dunne, S.; Ellison, A.; Smith, D.T.
Authors
Professor Amanda Ellison amanda.ellison@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Professor Dan Smith daniel.smith2@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Abstract
The eye movement system is sensitive to reward. However, whilst the eye movement system is extremely flexible, the extent to which changes to oculomotor behavior induced by reward paradigms persist beyond the training period or transfer to other oculomotor tasks is unclear. To address these issues we examined the effects of presenting feedback that represented small monetary rewards to spatial locations on the latency of saccadic eye movements, the time-course of learning and extinction of the effects of rewarding saccades on exogenous spatial attention and oculomotor inhibition of return. Reward feedback produced a relative facilitation of saccadic latency in a stimulus driven saccade task which persisted for three blocks of extinction trials. However, this hemifield-specific effect failed to transfer to peripheral cueing tasks. We conclude that rewarding specific spatial locations is unlikely to induce long-term, systemic changes to the human oculomotor or attention systems.
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Dunne, S., Ellison, A., & Smith, D. (2015). Rewards modulate saccade latency but not exogenous spatial attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 1080. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01080
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 13, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 28, 2015 |
Publication Date | Jul 28, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Oct 2, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 13, 2015 |
Journal | Frontiers in Psychology |
Print ISSN | 1664-1078 |
Electronic ISSN | 1664-1078 |
Publisher | Frontiers Media |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 6 |
Article Number | 1080 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01080 |
Keywords | Saccade, Instrumental, Reward, Learning, IOR, Exogenous attention, Oculomotor, Premotor theory. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1398828 |
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