The antisaccade task has been a well-studied paradigm to assess executive functioning. People are asked to look in the opposite direction of a salient peripheral stimulus. I am wondering if there are similar tasks out there that use eye movements, other than the antisaccade task, to measure executive functioning or cognitive control. Inhibition of return (IOR) could be similar to the antisaccade task and there is also the gap effect. Any suggestions on particular paradigms or authors would be a huge help. Thanks!
You can read some literature about the stop signal or countermanding task (Jeff Schall's group in Vanderbilt did a lot of studies in the filed). About neuroimaging versions of this task recently has been published this study
Frontal-subcortical circuits involved in reactive control and monitoring of gaze.
Thakkar KN, van den Heiligenberg FM, Kahn RS, Neggers SF. Journal of Neuroscience.
Hope this will help.
Hi Jenn,
There is a nice executive function meta-analysis out of Cam Carter's lab:
http://brainmap.org/pubs/NiendamCABN12.pdf
Inhibition is one of their classes of executive function and they identify something like 75 (non-stroop) papers that have been coded in the BrainMap database. I'm sure more have been added in the last 3 years. Let me know if you need help with the database tools.
Hope this helps,
Reese
Hi Jen !
trying to saccade while also tracking might be an interesting task for you, as it increases load in a way that is easy to measure - behaviorally and fMRI - see Steve Heinen and Scott Watamaniuk - although their basic question concerns the brain's control of eye movements, rather than executive function per se.
adam
Voluntary saccades to imagined target features in complete darkness. There are some fMRI studies on saccades in the dark .. worth reviewing them, but the one I am bringing to your attention has not been explored to the best of my knowledge
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