There is a well-known coupling between the allocation visual attention resources and the programming of eye movements as demonstrated by the brain functional anatomy and behaviour. In several publications we have explored the extent of this coupling in the context of saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements.
Souto, D., & Kerzel, D. (2014). Ocular tracking responses to background motion gated by feature-based attention. Journal of Neurophysiology, 112 (5) 1074-1081; doi:10.1152/jn.00810.2013 [full-text][pdf]
Souto, D., & Kerzel, D. (2011). Attentional constraints on target selection for smooth pursuit eye movements. Vision Research, 51(1), 13-20.[html][pdf]
Kerzel, D., Born, S., & Souto, D. (2009). Smooth pursuit eye movements and perception share target selection, but only some central resources. Behavioural Brain Research, 201(1), 66-73.[html][pdf]
Kerzel, D., Souto, D., & Ziegler, N. E. (2008). Effects of attention shifts to stationary objects during steady-state smooth pursuit eye movements. Vision Research, 48(7), 958-969.[html][pdf]
Souto, D., & Kerzel, D. (2008). Dynamics of attention during the initiation of smooth pursuit eye movements. Journal of Vision, 8(14), 3 1-16.[html][pdf]