title: Visual system: 'S' is not for saccades.
abstract: Coloured flashes that are visible only to the short-wavelength-sensitive S cones interfere with shifts of visual attention but not with shifts of gaze (saccades). Attention and gaze must therefore be directed by different visual sub-systems.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, UK.
authors.forename: Andrew M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Derrington
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology; D006224:Cricetinae; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D007395:Interneurons / Q000502:physiology; D008959:Models, Neurological; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D012165:Retinal Ganglion Cells / Q000502:physiology; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology*; D013037:Spatial Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D013477:Superior Colliculi / Q000502:physiology; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*