PSYB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tectorial Membrane, Basilar Membrane, Ear Canal
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Prediction of this theory: we seem to be unable to move our eyes without shifting our attention but we can shift our attention without moving our eyes. Pre-motor theory of attention was proposed by rizzolatti; he stated that shifts of attention essentially are oculomotor programs. So you shift your attention at the point when your oculomotor program (that is meant to move your eyes to some point in space) is ready to be executed. So it takes some time to do some planning (or process any kind of activity in the brain for that matter). So when the oculomotor program is ready to be executed = so that the eye can move to the target of interest that is the point when you shift. So attention actually precedes the eye movement! So the eye movement hasn"t happened but shift of attention already occurs! But, the eye movement does not have to happen after a shift of attention.
