Contributions of fixational eye movements to the discrimination of briefly presented stimuli

Journal of Vision

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 852-864

  Rucci, Michele ^a   Desbordes, Gaëlle ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image fading; Microsaccade; Ocular drift; Retinal stabilization; Saccade; Visual fixation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PREDICTION; RETINA IMAGE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISION;

FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LEARNING; RETINA; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1342279728     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/3.11.18     Document Type: Article

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