ERP evidence of attentional selection outside of effective oculomotor range
Wiktor Więcławski, Jakub Paszulewicz · 2025
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Description
Wiktor Więcławski and Jakub Paszulewicz published a 2025 brainwave study testing a famous claim about attention and eye movement. The premotor theory says attention benefits exist only where the eyes can move, since attention is just movement preparation. An earlier study seemed to confirm this: orienting shrank in the far temporal field when the eye was turned outward. The present team reran the setup while recording EEG, expecting a smaller attention-linked brain signal there.
No such reduction appeared. The signal stayed full size in the hard-to-reach field under eye abduction. The authors read this as support for the view that attention is its own process, not chained to the oculomotor range. Their result adds brain evidence to a behavioral debate.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wiktor Więcławski, Jakub Paszulewicz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |