“…A number of studies have shown that when a saccade is executed to a target and a distractor stimulus is successfully ignored, the trajectory of the saccade to the target is curved away from the distractor (e.g., Doyle & Walker, 2001;Sheliga, Riggio, & Rizzolatti, 1994;Sheliga, Riggio, & Rizzolatti, 1995;Tipper et al, 2000Tipper et al, , 2001. According to Tipper et al (e.g., 2000Tipper et al (e.g., , 2001, the initial direction of the saccade is based on the mean vector of activity in the saccade map (e.g., Sparks, Lee, & Rohrer, 1990) and the location-specific inhibition of the distractor location causes a sub-baseline level of activation at this location. This results in a mean vector of activity which is shifted away from the distractor location, and therefore, the saccade trajectory is curved away from the distractor.…”