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Attention points to the future

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Our perception of the visual world is stable despite saccade-caused retinal input shifts. A new behavioral study shows that this stability may be achieved by predictively remapping attention before eye movements begin.

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Figure 1: Testing the functional consequences of pre-saccadic remapping.

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  1. Richard J. Krauzlis and Samuel U. Nummela are in the Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA.,

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