Oculomotor system can differentially process red and green colors during saccade programming in the presence of a competing distractor

dc.contributor.authorRamezanpour, Hamidreza
dc.contributor.authorBlizzard, Shawn
dc.contributor.authorKehoe, Devin
dc.contributor.authorFallah, Mazyar
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-14T21:34:58Z
dc.date.available2022-09-14T21:34:58Z
dc.date.issued2022-09-13
dc.description.abstractSelective attention filters irrelevant information entering our brain to allow for fine-tuning of the relevant information processing. In the visual domain, shifts of attention are most often followed by a saccadic eye movement to objects and places of high relevance. Recent studies have shown that the stimulus color can affect saccade target selection and saccade trajectories. While those saccade modulations are based on perceptual color space, the level in the visual processing hierarchy at which color selection biases saccade programming remains unclear. As color has also been shown to influence manual response inhibition which is a key function of the prefrontal cortex, we hypothesized that the effects of color on executive functions would also inherently affect saccade programming. To test this hypothesis, we measured behavioral performance and saccade metrics during a modified saccadic Stroop task which reflects competition between color words (“RED” and “GREEN”) and their color at the level of the prefrontal cortex. Our results revealed that the oculomotor system can differentially process red and green colors when planning a saccade in the presence of a competing distractor.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAcknowledgments: H.R. was supported by a Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) postdoctoral fellowship award. M.F. was supported by an NSERC Discovery Grant and CIHR Project Grant.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRamezanpour, H., Blizzard, S., Kehoe, D.H. et al. Oculomotor system can differentially process red and green colors during saccade programming in the presence of a competing distractor. Exp Brain Res (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06459-8en_US
dc.identifier.issn1432-1106
dc.identifier.issn0014-4819
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06459-8en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/39722
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherExperimental Brain Researchen_US
dc.rightsThis version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06459-8en_US
dc.rights.articlehttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06459-8en_US
dc.subjecttarget-distractor similarityen_US
dc.subjectSaccadeen_US
dc.subjectStroopen_US
dc.subjectColor saliencyen_US
dc.subjectTop-down controlen_US
dc.titleOculomotor system can differentially process red and green colors during saccade programming in the presence of a competing distractoren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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