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dc.contributor.authorBarnhart, Anthony S.
dc.contributor.authorCostela, Francisco M.
dc.contributor.authorMartinez-Conde, Susana
dc.contributor.authorMacknik, Stephen L.
dc.contributor.authorGoldinger, Stephen D.
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-23T18:24:16Z
dc.date.available2024-09-23T18:24:16Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-28
dc.identifier.citationBarnhart AS, Costela FM, Martinez-Conde S, Macknik SL, Goldinger SD. Microsaccades reflect the dynamics of misdirected attention in magic. J Eye Mov Res. 2019 Jun 28;12(6):10.16910/jemr.12.6.7. doi: 10.16910/jemr.12.6.7. PMID: 33828753; PMCID: PMC7962680.en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1995-8692
dc.identifier.doi10.16910/jemr.12.6.7
dc.identifier.pmid33828753
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/15527
dc.description.abstractThe methods of magicians provide powerful tools for enhancing the ecological validity of laboratory studies of attention. The current research borrows a technique from magic to explore the relationship between microsaccades and covert attention under near-natural viewing conditions. We monitored participants' eye movements as they viewed a magic trick where a coin placed beneath a napkin vanishes and reappears beneath another napkin. Many participants fail to see the coin move from one location to the other the first time around, thanks to the magician's misdirection. However, previous research was unable to distinguish whether or not participants were fooled based on their eye movements. Here, we set out to determine if microsaccades may provide a window into the efficacy of the magician's misdirection. In a multi-trial setting, participants monitored the location of the coin (which changed positions in half of the trials), while engaging in a delayed match-to-sample task at a different spatial location. Microsaccades onset times varied with task difficulty, and microsaccade directions indexed the locus of covert attention. Our combined results indicate that microsaccades may be a useful metric of covert attentional processes in applied and ecologically valid settings.en_US
dc.language.isoN/Aen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Bernen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/4333-Barnhartetal-Article.pdfen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjecteye movementsen_US
dc.subjectattentionen_US
dc.subjectdivided attentionen_US
dc.subjecteye trackingen_US
dc.subjectmagicen_US
dc.subjectmicrosaccadesen_US
dc.titleMicrosaccades reflect the dynamics of misdirected attention in magicen_US
dc.typeArticle/Reviewen_US
dc.source.journaltitleJournal of Eye Movement Researchen_US
dc.source.volume12
dc.source.issue6
dc.description.versionVoRen_US
refterms.dateFOA2024-09-23T18:24:17Z
dc.description.institutionSUNY Downstateen_US
dc.description.departmentPhysiology and Pharmacologyen_US
dc.description.departmentNeurologyen_US
dc.description.departmentOphthalmologyen_US
dc.description.departmentLaboratory of Translational Neuroscienceen_US
dc.description.degreelevelN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.issue6en_US


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