Two new studies from the Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, explore how closely attention and eye movements are linked and unveil how the brain coordinates the two processes.
According to IISc, attention is a unique phenomenon that allows us to focus on a specific object in our visual world and ignore distractions.
“When we pay attention to an object, we tend to gaze towards it. Therefore, scientists have long suspected that attention is tightly coupled to rapid eye movements, called saccades. In fact, even before our eyes move towards an object, our attention focuses on it, allowing us to perceive it more clearly – a well-known phenomenon called pre-saccadic attention,” IISc said.
