title: Gaze-centered spatial updating of reach targets across different memory delays.
abstract: Previous research has demonstrated that remembered targets for reaching are coded and updated relative to gaze, at least when the reaching movement is made soon after the target has been extinguished. In this study, we want to test whether reach targets are updated relative to gaze following different time delays. Reaching endpoints systematically varied as a function of gaze relative to target irrespective of whether the action was executed immediately or after a delay of 5 s, 8 s or 12 s. The present results suggest that memory traces for reach targets continue to be coded in a gaze-dependent reference frame if no external cues are present.
authors.affiliation: Experimental and Biological Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. fiehler@staff.uni-marburg.de
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fiehler
authors.forename: Immo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Schütz
authors.forename: Denise Y P
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Henriques
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult