The role of fixational eye movements in visual perception

By S. Martinez-Conde, S. Macknik, David H. Hubel. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2004

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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Transient induced gamma-band response in EEG as a manifestation of miniature saccades. (2008, background): “Microsaccades (Engbert, 2006; Martinez-Conde et al., 2004) are small saccades (mostly less than 0.”
Microsaccades counteract visual fading during fixation. (2005, background): “Another reason that it may have been difficult to measure the relationship between microsaccades and perception is that microsaccades can occur several times per second, which is on a timescale that can be difficult to address psychophysically (see Martinez-Conde et al. [2004] for a review of micr”
Eye smarter than scientists believed: Neural computations in circuits of the retina (2010, background): “Even when we try to fix our gaze on a static scene, minute drift and tremor in eye position provide a persistent source of image motion, whose trajectory is shared by all locations on the retina (Martinez-Conde et al., 2004).”
What is the best fixation target? The effect of target shape on stability of fixational eye movements. (2013, neutral): “The idea is that both of these mechanisms control fixation location on the retina (for reviews see for example Collewijn & Kowler, 2008; Martinez-Conde et al., 2004; Rolfs, 2009).”
Eye tracking cognitive load using pupil diameter and microsaccades with fixed gaze (2018, methodology): “Note that prior to statistical analyses, microsaccades were additionally filtered using thresholds of maximum duration (40 ms) and maximum magnitude (2 visual degrees); for review of microsaccades filtering see Otero-Millan et al. [53] and Martinez-Conde et al. [54].”
Perceptual learning with spatial uncertainties. (2006, background): “Thresholds in these tasks are in the order of a few tens of arc seconds, whereas the microsaccades are in the order of tens of arc minutes ( Martinez-Conde, Macknik, & Hubel, 2004 ).”
Persistence in eye movement during visual search (2016, background): “On the contrary, the fixational eye movements during fixations are produced rather involuntarily from some subcortical mechanism or by the noise and variability of neuronal firing to the ocular muscles [43].”