Do symmetrical distractors balance the scales?
” Perception 32 ECVP Abstract Supplement Curved saccade trajectories: Do symmetrical distractors balance the scales? E McSorley, R Walker, P Haggard Curved saccade trajectories have been observed in a range of different conditions and can be modulated in direction and magnitude under different experimental conditions. Curvature away from a peripheral location has been observed when subjects orient their attention to a peripheral cue or when a distractor is presented remote from the saccade target. This trajectory modulation has been attributed to inhibitory processes involved in the suppression of a response to the distractor location that results in the saccade being directed initially away from the target location. The spatial extent of this presumed inhibitory process was examined in the present study. In one experiment, the influence of single distractors was compared to that observed when two distractors appeared at mirror-symmetric locations in both visual fields. When a single d
