Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Oculomotor freezing reflects tactile temporal expectation and aids tactile perception

  • Stephanie Badde,
  • Caroline F. Myers,
  • Shlomit Yuval-Greenberg,
  • Marisa Carrasco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17160-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The oculomotor system keeps the eyes steady in expectation of visual events, inhibiting small fixational eye movements. Here, the authors reveal that this oculomotor freezing reflects tactile temporal expectations and aids tactile perception.