To look or not to look? Typical and atypical development of oculomotor control.

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The ability to inhibit saccades toward suddenly appearing peripheral stimuli (prosaccades) and direct them to contralateral locations instead (antisaccades) is a crucial marker of eye movement control. Typically developing infants as young as 4-month-olds can learn to inhibit reflexive saccades to peripheral stimuli, but they do not produce antisaccades, whose development later in infancy and its underlying neural computations remain unexplored. Here we tested oculomotor control in typically ...

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Authors: Scerif, G; Karmiloff-Smith, A; Campos, R; Elsabbagh, M; Driver, J

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of cognitive neuroscience
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 591-604
• Publication date: 2005-04-01
• DOI: 10.1162/0898929053467523
• EISSN: 1530-8898
• ISSN: 0898-929X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Female; Humans; Reaction Time; Child, Preschool; Fragile X Syndrome; Infant; Age Factors; Reproducibility of Results; Attention; Eye Movements; Functional Laterality; Male; Inhibition (Psychology); Analysis of Variance; Photic Stimulation; Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; Cues; Human Development