Microsaccades drive illusory motion in the Enigma illusion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 41, 2008, Pages 16033-16038

  Troncoso, Xoana G ^a   Macknik, Stephen L ^a   Otero Millan, Jorge ^a,b   Martinez Conde, Susana ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bistable perception; Fixational eye movements; Miniature eye movements; Subjective motion; Visual fixation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ILLUSION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; SACCADES;

EID: 57349134398     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709389105     Document Type: Article

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