Microsaccades restore the visibility of minute foveal targets

PeerJ

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Costela, Francisco M ^a,b   McCamy, Michael B ^a   Macknik, Stephen L ^a   Otero Millan, Jorge ^a,c   Martinez Conde, Susana ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fading; Fixation; Fovea; Illusion; Troxler fading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINA FOVEA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84885135649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.119     Document Type: Article

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