The time course of saccadic decision making: Dynamic field theory

• Published in: Neural networks Vol. 19; no. 8; pp. 1059 - 1074
• Main Authors: Wilimzig, Claudia, Schneider, Stefan, Schöner, Gregor
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2006
• Subjects: Action Potentials - physiology; Animals; Cross-Over Studies; Decision Making - physiology; Fixation; Humans; Inhibition (Psychology); Models, Biological; Neural modelling; Neurons - physiology; Nonlinear Dynamics; Photic Stimulation; Psychophysics - methods; Reaction Time - physiology; Saccades; Saccades - physiology; Selection; Time Factors; Visual Cortex - cytology; Visual Cortex - physiology; Visual Fields - physiology; Visual Perception - physiology; Saccades; Neural modelling; Fixation; Selection

Making a saccadic eye movement involves two decisions, the decision to initiate the saccade and the selection of the visual target of the saccade. Here we provide a theoretical account for the time-courses of these two processes, whose instabilities are the basis of decision making. We show how the...