This study examines a contribution of the visual system to the acquisition of visual information during saccadic eye movements (saccade). In the experiment, when the observer made a saccade, the location of a Kanji character displayed on a CRT screen was transferred a random distance and direction, or was kept at the original position. When the character was transferred to a new position, the recognition rate of the character decreased proportionally to the increase in distance between the fixation point after the saccade and the center of the character, in comparison with the case when the character was kept at the original position. We attempted to control the spatial attention during the same tasks. The result suggests that the spatial attention before a saccade might also be involved in the process of visual information acquisition during saccades and the visual system may integrate the positional information into the visual feature information.
