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Shifts of Attention and Saccades Are Very Similar. Are They Causally Linked?

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Attention is first and foremost the servant of cognition, choosing one object among the many available, to paraphrase William James. In addition, attention has a motoric function in selecting the object to be grasped by eye or hand. In this chapter we will first review some of the literature dealing with how visual attention is shifted about and what role it might play in the control of saccadic eye movements, and then briefly describe some experiments of our own on these matters.

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McFadden, S., Wallman, J. (2001). Shifts of Attention and Saccades Are Very Similar. Are They Causally Linked?. In: Jenkin, M., Harris, L. (eds) Vision and Attention. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21591-4_2

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