title: Multi-stepping saccadic sequences in humans.
abstract: A number of paradigms are reported in which multi-stepping saccadic sequences (MSS) are reliably elicited in normal subjects. It was observed that MSS are consistently associated with a prolongation of the initial saccade latency. Further experiments show that this phenomenon is validated across a number of independent eye movement tasks. However, the probability of MSS occurring is reduced when temporal constraints are imposed on the latency of the response. An interpretation of these task-elicited MSS in terms of the neural mechanisms controlling voluntary saccades is proposed.
authors.affiliation: University of Durham, UK.
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Crawford
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D006801:Humans; D011698:Pursuit, Smooth; D011930:Reaction Time; D012016:Reference Values; D012438:Saccades