TY - JOUR
T1 - Oculomotor inhibition precedes temporally expected auditory targets
AU - Abeles, Dekel
AU - Amit, Roy
AU - Tal-Perry, Noam
AU - Carrasco, Marisa
AU - Yuval-Greenberg, Shlomit
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Noam Shimoni for his assistance in running the experiment, and Stephanie Badde for useful discussions. This study was funded by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation grant 2015201 to S.Y.-G and M.C.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Author(s).
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - Eye movements are inhibited prior to the onset of temporally-predictable visual targets. This oculomotor inhibition effect could be considered a marker for the formation of temporal expectations and the allocation of temporal attention in the visual domain. Here we show that eye movements are also inhibited before predictable auditory targets. In two experiments, we manipulate the period between a cue and an auditory target to be either predictable or unpredictable. The findings show that although there is no perceptual gain from avoiding gaze-shifts in this procedure, saccades and blinks are inhibited prior to predictable relative to unpredictable auditory targets. These findings show that oculomotor inhibition occurs prior to auditory targets. This link between auditory expectation and oculomotor behavior reveals a multimodal perception action coupling, which has a central role in temporal expectations.
AB - Eye movements are inhibited prior to the onset of temporally-predictable visual targets. This oculomotor inhibition effect could be considered a marker for the formation of temporal expectations and the allocation of temporal attention in the visual domain. Here we show that eye movements are also inhibited before predictable auditory targets. In two experiments, we manipulate the period between a cue and an auditory target to be either predictable or unpredictable. The findings show that although there is no perceptual gain from avoiding gaze-shifts in this procedure, saccades and blinks are inhibited prior to predictable relative to unpredictable auditory targets. These findings show that oculomotor inhibition occurs prior to auditory targets. This link between auditory expectation and oculomotor behavior reveals a multimodal perception action coupling, which has a central role in temporal expectations.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-020-17158-9
DO - 10.1038/s41467-020-17158-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 32665559
AN - SCOPUS:85087986152
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 11
JO - Nature communications
JF - Nature communications
IS - 1
M1 - 3524
ER -