In the model proposed by Findlay & Walker, the programming of saccadic eye
movements is achieved by two parallel processes, one dedicated to the codin
g of saccade metrics (Where) and the other controlling saccade initiation (
When). One outcome of the winner-take-all" characteristics of the salience
map, the main node of the model, is an independence between the metrics and
the latency of saccades. We report on some observations, made in the head-
unrestrained cat under pathological conditions, of a correlation between ac
curacy and latency of saccadic gaze shifts. To account for such a correlati
on, the link between metrics specification (Where) and saccade triggering (
When) should be amended in the model.