Active Vision: Microsaccades Direct the Eye to Where It Matters Most
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Active Vision: Microsaccades Direct the Eye to Where It Matters Most
Even in the most sensitive part of human retina, the fovea, perception is not uniform. To compensate for such non-uniformity, tiny fixational microsaccades direct the optimal foveal locus to relevant parts of the fixated scene, similarly to larger exploratory saccades but on a miniature scale.
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.038