Figure 1: Saccades can disrupt both visual and attentional representations in retinotopic brain areas.

Pre-saccadic (A) and post-saccadic (B) representations of a complex visual scene by a population of retinotopic visual neurons. Black plus indicates the current fixation position, arrow indicates the upcoming saccade, and the colored dashed circles indicate the neurons’ spatial receptive fields. Before the saccade, the purple neuron represents the small distant child, but after the saccade the same object is now represented by the red neuron, while the purple neuron represents a different object. In the context of attention, if spatial attention is directed to the small child before the saccade, facilitating activity in the purple neuron, then in the absence of some form of remapping, attention will be mislocalized to the wrong target (trees) after the saccade.