This repository contains data of Exp. 1 and supplementary material presented in the paper **Saccadic omission revisited: What saccade-induced smear looks like** by Richard Schweitzer, Mara Doering, Thomas Seel, Jörg Raisch, and Martin Rolfs (doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.15.532538). Analyses can be found at: https://osf.io/ravbc/.
**Background**
In a famous and so far never replicated experiment, Campbell & Wurtz (1978) briefly illuminated a laboratory room during saccades, allowing the observers to perceive the greyed-out, smeared visual scene, that should normally be induced on the retina due to the eyes' high angular velocities during saccades.
While their study had the goal to investigate why we do not perceive this kind of input under normal circumstances (i.e., most likely due to pre- and post-saccadic masking processes), it is yet unclear what intra-saccadic smear induced by our daily environment looks like and what kind of visual features (orientations, spatial frequencies, etc) are characteristic to it.
This study aims at understanding (1) how well observers are able to identify scenes briefly presented during fixation from (smeared) scenes presented for the same duration during saccades and (2) what visual features of the scene are used by observers to perform this identification successfully. Ultimately, the goal is to provide a low-level description of "what intra-saccadic smear looks like".
**References**
Campbell, F. W., & Wurtz, R. H. (1978). Saccadic omission: why we do not see a grey-out during a saccadic eye movement. *Vision research, 18*(10), 1297-1303.