BCS 528: Eye Movements and Attention

Spring 2005

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1. Overview of saccade circuitry: Brainstem, cerebellum, and superior colliculus
   • Readings:
   • Fuchs, A.F., Kaneko, C.R.S., & Scudder, C.A. (1985). Brainstem control of saccadic eye movements. Ann. Rev. Neurosci., 8, 307-337.
   • Becker
2. Overview of saccade circuitry: frontal eye fields, supplementary eye fields, and LIP Slides 1 Slides 2
   • Readings:
   • Schall J.D., & Thompson, K.G. (1999). Neural selection and control of visually guided eye movements. Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 22, 241-259.
   • Snyder, Batista, & Andersen
   • Barash, S., Bracewell, R.M., Fogassi, L., Gnadt, J.W., & Andersen, R.A. (1991). Saccade-related activity in the lateral intraparietal area I. Temporal properties; comparison with area 7a. J. of Neurophysiology, 66(3), 1095-1108.
   • Schall
   • Bruce, et al
   • Colby C.L., & Goldberg, M.E. (1999). Space and attention in parietal cortex. Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 22, 319-349.
3. Coordination of eye and head/ brainstem & cerebellar control
   • Readings:
   • Freedman, E.G., & Sparks, D.L. (1997). Activity of cells in the deeper layers of the superior colliculus of the rhesus monkey: evidence for a gaze displacement command.
   • Epelboim, J., Steinman, R.M., Kowler, E., Pizlo, Z., Erkelens, C.J., & Collewijn, H. (1997). Gaze-shift dynamics in two kinds of sequential looking tasks. Vision Res., 37(18), 2597-2607.
   • Supplemental Readings:
   • Freedman, E.G. (2001). Interactions between eye and head control signals can account for movement kinematics. Biol. Cybern., 84, 453-462.
   • Freedman, E.G., & Quessy, S. (2004). Electrical stimulation of rhesus monkey nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis. Exp. Brain Res., 156, 357-376.
   • Freedman, E.G., & Sparks, D.L. (2000). Coordination of the eyes and head: movement kinematics. Exp. Brain Res., 131, 22-32.
4. Reference frames for saccadic targeting
• Readings:
• Pouget, A. & Snyder, L.H. (2000). Computational approaches to sensorimotor transformations. Nature Neuroscience Supplement, 3, 1192-1198.
• Snyder, L.H. (2000). Coordinate transformations for eye and arm movements in the brain. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 10(6), 747-754.
5. Saliency maps and visual search
• Readings:
• Parkhurst, D., Klinton, L., & Niebur, E. (2002). Modeling the role of salience in the allocation of overt visual attention. Vision Research, 42, 107-123.
• Rao, R.P.N., Zelinksy, G.J., Hayhoe, M.M., & Ballard, D.H. (2002). Eye movements in iconic visual search. Vision Research, 42, 1447-1463.
• Eckstein, M.P., Pham, B.T., & Shimozaki, S.S. (2004). The footprints of visual attention during search with 100% valid and 100% invalid cues. Vision Research, 44, 1193-1207.
• Henderson, J.M. (2003). Human gaze control during real-world scene perception. Trends in Cognitive Science, 7(11), 498-503.
6. Relation between attention and saccades
• Readings:
• Corbetta, M., Akbudak, E., Conturo, T.E., Snyder A.Z., Ollinger, J.M., Drury, H.A., Linenweber, M.R., Petersen, S.E., Raichle, M.E., Van Essen, D.C., & Shulman, G.L. (1998). A common network of functional areas for attention and eye movements. Neuron, 21, 761-773.
• Moore, T., & Armstrong, K.M. (2003). Selective gating of visual signals by microstimulation of frontal cortex. Nature, 421, 370-373.
• Moore, T., & Fallah, M. (2004). Microstimulation of the frontal eye field and its effects on covert spatial attention. Journal of Neurophysiology, 91, 152-162.
7. Integration across saccades
• Readings:
• Hayhoe, M.M. Integration of visual information across saccades.
• Castelhano, M.S., & Henderson, J.M. Incidental visual memory for objects in scenes. Visual Cognition.
• Hollingworth, A., & Henderson, J.M. (2002). Accurate visual memory for previously attended objects in natural scenes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28(1), 113-136.
• Irwin, D.E. (1992). Memory for position and identity across eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18(2), 307-317.
• Irwin, D.E & Andrews, R. (1996). Integration and accumulation of information across saccadic eye movements. In T. Inui & J.L. McClelland (Eds.), Attention and performance XVI: Information integration in perception and communication (pp. 125-155). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
8. Role of reward in saccade programming
• Readings:
• Platt, M.L., & Glimcher, P.W. (1999). Neural correlates of decision variables in parietal cortex. Nature, 400, pp. 233.
• Stuphorn, V., Taylor, T.L., Schall, J.D. (2000). Performance monitoring by the supplementary eye field. Nature, 408, 857-860.
• Hikosaka, O., Takikawa, Y., Kawagoe, R. (2000). Role of the basal ganglia in the control of purposive saccadic eye movements. Physiological Reviews, 80(3), 953-978.
• Maunsell, J.H.R. (2004). Neuronal representations of cognitive state: reward or attention? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(6), 261-265.
• Hayhoe, M., & Ballard, D. Eye movements in natural behavior. 1-8.
9. Neural basis of planning
10. The role of tasks
11. Eye movements and language
12. Attention, vision, and language

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