Saccades inevitably protect visual memory traces

Visual memory during pauses between successive saccades.

Selective attention is closely linked to eye movements. Prior to a saccade, attention shifts to the saccadic goal at the expense of surrounding locations. Such a constricted attentional field, while useful to ensure accurate saccades, constrains the spatial range of high-quality perceptual analysis. The present study showed that attention could be allocated to locations other than the saccadic ...

A model of visual–spatial memory across saccades

This paper describes a neural network model that directs saccades back to targets after they disappear and other saccades intervene. This is a simple example of knowing where something is after it is no longer visible and the observer has moved. These tasks require a short-term memory that can store continuous values of spatial location. The model was generated by training a neural network with...

P58: Visual Working Memory Performance Based on Saccades in Children with and without Specific Learning Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study

Some of the previous studies show that children with SLD have deficits in visual processing and working memory. Hence, the aim of this research was to investigate problems of visual working memory based on behavioral neuroscience method, using an eye tracker device. The method of present study was ex-post facto study. The participants included couple of twelve children with SLD (mean age=10.92)...

Traces of Drosophila Memory

Studies using functional cellular imaging of living flies have identified six memory traces that form in the olfactory nervous system after conditioning with odors. These traces occur in distinct nodes of the olfactory nervous system, form and disappear across different windows of time, and are detected in the imaged neurons as increased calcium influx or synaptic release in response to the con...

Tracing Subliminal Memory Traces