TY  - JOUR
A1  - Chota, Samson
A1  - Luo, Canhuang
A1  - Crouzet, Sebastien
A1  - Boyer, Léa
A1  - Kienitz, Ricardo
A1  - Schmid, Michael Christoph
A1  - Rullen, Rufin van
T1  - Rhythmic fluctuations of saccadic reaction time arising from visual competition
T2  - Scientific reports
N2  - Recent research indicates that attentional stimulus selection could be a rhythmic process. In monkey, neurons in V4 and IT exhibit rhythmic spiking activity in the theta range in response to a stimulus. When two stimuli are presented together, the rhythmic neuronal responses to each occur in anti-phase, a result indicative of competitive interactions. In addition, it was recently demonstrated that these alternating oscillations in monkey V4 modulate the speed of saccadic responses to a target flashed on one of the two competing stimuli. Here, we replicate a similar behavioral task in humans (7 participants, each performed 4000 trials) and report a pattern of results consistent with the monkey findings: saccadic response times fluctuate in the theta range (6 Hz), with opposite phase for targets flashed on distinct competing stimuli.
KW  - Human behaviour
KW  - Neuroscience
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47458
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-474581
SN  - 2045-2322
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VL  - 8
IS  - 1, Art. 15889
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
PB  - Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
CY  - [London]
ER  -