ArticleJournal of vision2018
Monocular microsaccades: Do they really occur?
Article in Journal of vision, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Do microsaccades vary with discriminability around the visual field?bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Fine-scale measurement of the blind spot borders.Vision research · 2023Article
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- Eye Tracking in Optometry: A Systematic Review.Journal of eye movement research · 2023Article
- Assessment of binocular fixational eye movements including cyclotorsion with split-field binocular scanning laser ophthalmoscopy.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Micro-pursuit: A class of fixational eye movements correlating with smooth, predictable, small-scale target trajectories.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- Small eye movements cannot be reliably measured by video-based P-CR eye-trackers.Behavior research methods · 2020Article
- Microsaccadic rate signatures correlate under monocular and binocular stimulation conditions.Journal of eye movement research · 2020Article
- What makes a microsaccade? A review of 70 years of research prompts a new detection method.Journal of eye movement research · 2020Article
- Closed loop motor-sensory dynamics in human vision.PloS one · 2020Article
- Motion tracking of iris features to detect small eye movements.Journal of eye movement research · 2019Article
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Abstract
Small saccades, known as microsaccades, occur frequently during fixation. Several recent studies have argued that a considerable fraction of these movements are present in the traces from one eye only. This claim contrasts with the findings of older reports, which concluded that microsaccades, like larger saccades, are virtually always binocular events. Here we examined the characteristics of small saccades by means of two of the most established high-resolution eye-tracking techniques available. A binocular Dual Purkinje Image eye-tracker was used to record eye movements while observers fixated, with their head immobilized, on markers displayed on a monitor. A specially designed eye-coil system was used to measure eye movements during normal head-free viewing, while subjects fixated on markers at various distances. Monocular microsaccades were virtually absent in both datasets. In the head-fixed data, not a single monocular microsaccade was observed. In the head-free data, only one event appeared to be monocular out of more than a thousand saccades. Monocular microsaccades do not seem to occur during normal head-free or head-immobilized fixation.
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