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antisaccade task  

Definition

  • A task in which subjects are required to make a voluntary eye movement away from the position of a cue (antisaccade) to identify a target stimulus. This situation is compared to prosaccade, in which cue and target stimulus share the same position.

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Hallett, P. E. (1978). Primary and secondary saccades to goals defined by instructions. Vision Research, 18(10), 1279‑1296. https://doi.org/10.1016/0042-6989(78)90218-3

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Unsworth, N., Robison, M. K., & Miller, A. L. (2021). On the relation between working memory capacity and the antisaccade task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(1), 68-84. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001060

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-LRGSC9RJ-0

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