ArticleJournal of vision2021
Fixational eye movements in passive versus active sustained fixation tasks.
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- Monocular size and distance scaling is modulated by the presence of a fixation point.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Horizontal saccade bias results from combination of saliency anisotropies and egocentric biases.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Sex differences in fixational eye movements following concussion.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- The best fixation target revisited: New insights from retinal eye tracking.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Spatial and Temporal Factors Influencing Fixational Saccades.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Asymmetries in Foveal Vision.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- The Optimal Retinal Locus for High-Resolution Vision in Space and Time.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Fixational eye movements as active sensation for high visual acuity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Poor fixation stability does not account for motion perception deficits in amblyopia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Asymmetries in foveal vision.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- High refresh rate display for natural monocular viewing in AOSLO psychophysics experiments.Optics express · 2024Article
- Foveolar Drusen Decrease Fixation Stability in Pre-Symptomatic AMD.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2024Article
- Visual Feature Tuning Properties of Short-Latency Stimulus-Driven Ocular Position Drift Responses during Gaze Fixation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Substrip-based registration and automatic montaging of adaptive optics retinal images.Biomedical optics express · 2024Article
- Influence of stimulus manipulation on conscious awareness of emotional facial expressions in the match-to-sample paradigm.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Enhanced S-Cone Syndrome: Elevated Cone Counts Confer Supernormal Visual Acuity in the S-Cone Pathway.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Human fixational eye movements are so small and precise that high-speed, accurate tools are needed to fully reveal their properties and functional roles. Where the fixated image lands on the retina and how it moves for different levels of visually demanding tasks is the subject of the current study. An Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope (AOSLO) was used to image, track and present a variety of fixation targets (Maltese cross, disk, concentric circles, Vernier and tumbling-E letter) to healthy subjects. During these different passive (static) or active (discriminating) tasks under natural eye motion, the landing position of the target on the retina was tracked in space and time over the retinal image directly with high spatial (<1 arcmin) and temporal (960 Hz) resolution. We computed both the eye motion and the exact trajectory of the fixated target's motion over the retina. We confirmed that compared to passive tasks, active tasks elicited a partial inhibition of microsaccades, leading to longer drift periods compensated by larger corrective saccades. Consequently, the overall fixation stability during active tasks was on average 57% larger than during passive tasks. The preferred retinal locus of fixation was the same for each task and did not coincide with the location of the peak cone density.
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