Heiner Deubel

A dynamic 1/f noise protocol to assess visual attention without biasing perceptual processing

The paper introduces a 1/f noise protocol to measure visual attention without biasing perceptual processing, showing orientation discrimination accuracy is independent of retinal eccentricity.

Where we perceive before we look: The distribution of presaccadic attention assessed with dynamic 1/f noise

This paper assesses presaccadic attention distribution using dynamic 1/f noise, showing attention shifts to target locations even in unstructured fields and highlighting attentional costs at fixation.

Eye and hand movements disrupt attentional control

This study shows that voluntary attentional control is disrupted by simultaneous eye and hand movement plans, even when task difficulty is reduced, indicating its fragility compared to automatic attentional shifts.

Sounds are remapped across saccades

The paper investigates how saccade trajectories are affected by visual and auditory distractors, finding that both modalities are remapped in eye-centered oculomotor centers during saccades.

Attention capture outside the oculomotor range

The paper tests whether exogenous attention is limited to the oculomotor range by showing that salient cues outside this range also disrupt endogenous attention.

Stimulus blanking reveals transsaccadic feature transfer

The paper investigates transsaccadic feature transfer using a blanking paradigm and finds improved orientation discrimination with anisoluminant grating and blanking.

Theory of Visual Attention (TVA) in Action: Assessing Premotor Attention in Simultaneous Eye-Hand Movements

The paper tests whether attention is shared or independent between eye and hand movements using the TVA model, finding no increase in attention capacity with dual effector use.

Visual landmarks calibrate auditory space across eye movements

The paper shows that visual landmarks recalibrate auditory spatial perception during eye movements, even when head position is stable.

Spreading pre-saccadic attentional resources without trade-off

The paper shows that attentional resources spread to more peripheral locations when saccades are prepared toward a recently extinguished target, without a decrease in sensitivity.

Pre-saccadic remapping relies on dynamics of spatial attention

This study investigates pre-saccadic remapping by analyzing attentional dynamics and finds that remapping occurs only when attention is allocated sufficiently early before the saccade.

Visual attention is not always spatially coupled to subsequent oculomotor program

The paper shows that visual attention and saccade programming are dissociable, with attentional facilitation only occurring at the saccade endpoint when a single saccade is made, not when averaging saccades are executed.