Saccades to both vision and touch are modified following adaptation but cross-modal transfers are asymmetrical

Abstract

The present study revealed that, as predicted from a large literature, adaptation of visual reactive saccades transfers to tactile saccades of the same as well as neighboring amplitudes. Furthermore, in a modified double-step target paradigm, tactile saccades exposed to repeated errors adapt with a similar rate and spatial generalization as visual saccades, but this adaptation only slightly transfers to visual saccades. These findings bring new information on saccadic adaptation processes.