Definition
The antisaccade task in its most typical form (the visually guided antisaccade; Fig. 1) is a reaction time task in which subjects are instructed to perform an immediate eye movement in the opposite direction to a peripheral stimulus, which is presented in their right or left visual field, while they are fixating on a central stimulus (Hallett 1978). Variations of the typical antisaccade (gap antisaccade and overlap antisaccade; Fig. 1) in the horizontal or vertical plane were designed over the years to investigate the effect of the fixation stimulus on the decision to move (Goldring and Fischer 1997; Forbes and Klein 1996; Fischer et al. 1997).
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