Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Perceptual saccadic suppression starts in the retina

  • Saad Idrees,
  • Matthias P. Baumann,
  • Felix Franke,
  • Thomas A. Münch,
  • Ziad M. Hafed

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15890-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Saccadic suppression is frequently attributed to active suppressive signals derived from eye movement commands. Here, the authors show that visual-only mechanisms starting in the retina can account for perceptual saccadic suppression properties without the need for motor-based suppression commands.