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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Cogn Neurosci. 2009 Feb;21(2):230–245. doi: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21025

Table 1. Contrasts of right versus left go trials.

Anatomical location Cluster size Z value XYZ (mm)
Go right minus left
L ventral occipital 189 4.29 -4 -82 -4
L dorsal occipital* 443 4.46 -24 -84 22
L middle temporal 18 3.35 -44 -74 -10
Go left minus right
R ventral occipital 249 4.34 12 -82 -8
L dorsal occipital* 150 4.07 -22 -104 6
L dorsal occipital* 54 3.85 -8 -92 18
*

The left dorsal occipital activations most likely reflect the presence of the visible light associated with the light-source for the near-infrared eye-tracker (ASL 504a, Applied Science Laboratories), which always appeared in the bottom right visual field and therefore shifted position along the retina in different directions for upper-left and upper-right executed saccades (while always remaining in the bottom-right quadrant, due to its eccentricity of approximately 14 degrees). Note that such retinal changes due to saccades did not arise on no-go trials, which provide a further critical test of our hypotheses, see main text.