ArticleeLife2016
A new motor synergy that serves the needs of oculomotor and eye lid systems while keeping the downtime of vision minimal.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Blinks are strategically coupled with head movements in unconstrained natural gaze behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Rapid switching of vestibulo-motor pathways through voluntary eyelid closure in primates.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Eyeball translations affect saccadic eye movements beyond brainstem control.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
- The perceptual consequences and neurophysiology of eye blinks.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2023Review
- The saccade main sequence revised: A fast and repeatable tool for oculomotor analysis.Behavior research methods · 2021Article
- Twitches, Blinks, and Fidgets: Important Generators of Ongoing Neural Activity.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2019Review
- Blink associated resetting eye movements (BARMs) are functionally complementary to microsaccades in correcting for fixation errors.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Target Displacements during Eye Blinks Trigger Automatic Recalibration of Gaze Direction.Current biology : CB · 2017Article
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Abstract
The purpose of blinks is to keep the eyes hydrated and to protect them. Blinks are rarely noticed by the subject as blink-induced alterations of visual input are blanked out without jeopardizing the perception of visual continuity, features blinks share with saccades. Although not perceived, the blink-induced disconnection from the visual environment leads to a loss of information. Therefore there is critical need to minimize it. Here we demonstrate evidence for a new type of eye movement serving a distinct oculomotor demand, namely the resetting of eye torsion, likewise inevitably causing a loss of visual information. By integrating this eye movement into blinks, the inevitable down times of vision associated with each of the two behaviors are synchronized and the overall downtime minimized.
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