TY - JOUR
T1 - Aging and the strategic control of the fixation offset effect
AU - Cassavaugh, Nicholas
AU - Kramer, Arthur F.
AU - Peterson, Matthew S.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2004/6
Y1 - 2004/6
N2 - A study was conducted to examine potential age-related differences in the strategic control of exogenous and endogenous saccades within the context of the fixation offset effect (FOE; i.e., faster saccades when a fixation point is removed than when it is left on throughout a trial). Subjects were instructed to make rapid saccades either on the basis of a suddenly appearing peripheral visual stimulus (exogenous saccade) or in response to a tone (endogenous saccade). On half of the trials the fixation point was removed simultaneously with the occurrence of the cue stimulus. Subjects' preparatory set was varied by manipulating the proportion of saccades generated to a visual and auditory stimulus within a trial block. Young and old adults both produced FOEs, and the FOEs were strategically modulated by preparatory set. The data are discussed in terms of aging and oculomotor control.
AB - A study was conducted to examine potential age-related differences in the strategic control of exogenous and endogenous saccades within the context of the fixation offset effect (FOE; i.e., faster saccades when a fixation point is removed than when it is left on throughout a trial). Subjects were instructed to make rapid saccades either on the basis of a suddenly appearing peripheral visual stimulus (exogenous saccade) or in response to a tone (endogenous saccade). On half of the trials the fixation point was removed simultaneously with the occurrence of the cue stimulus. Subjects' preparatory set was varied by manipulating the proportion of saccades generated to a visual and auditory stimulus within a trial block. Young and old adults both produced FOEs, and the FOEs were strategically modulated by preparatory set. The data are discussed in terms of aging and oculomotor control.
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U2 - 10.1037/0882-7974.19.2.357
DO - 10.1037/0882-7974.19.2.357
M3 - Article
C2 - 15222830
AN - SCOPUS:2642522084
VL - 19
SP - 357
EP - 361
JO - Psychology and Aging
JF - Psychology and Aging
SN - 0882-7974
IS - 2
ER -