1 Saccadic Suppression of Retinotopically Localized Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Responses In Human Primary Visual Area V1
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Vision is an energetic course of involving a close interplay between sensory and oculomotor control programs in the brain. V4 (Kleiser et al., 2004). These authors concluded that saccadic suppression happens at increased movement-sensitive areas and located no vital proof of saccadic suppression in areas V1 and V2. Thilo et al. (2004) reported that saccades impair the perception of phosphenes elicited at the retinal degree however not of these elicited by transcranial magnetic stimulation over the occipital cortex, suggesting that retinal indicators must be suppressed earlier than arriving at the visual cortex. Suppression at an early stage of visual processing is also supported by fMRI work from Sylvester et al. 2005) through which they display that sequences of saccades throughout ganzfeld visual stimulation modulate exercise in human lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), V1, and V2. Well established psychophysical analysis has shown that saccadic suppression provokes a transient and brief-lived lower in visual sensitivity that begins ∼75 ms earlier than the onset of the particular eye movement and is maximal at movement onset (Latour, 1962