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Fixational eye movement
Microsaccades are a kind of fixational eye movement. They are small, jerk-like, involuntary eye movements, similar to miniature versions of voluntary saccades. They typically occur during prolonged visual fixation, not only in humans, but also in animals with foveal vision. Microsaccade amplitudes vary from 2 to 120 arcminutes. The first empirical evidence for their existence was provided by Robert Darwin, the father of Charles Darwin. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MicrosaccadeA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Microsaccade-inspired event camera for roboticsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Oxford handbook of eye movementsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A Neural Mechanism for Microsaccade Generation in the Primate Superior ColliculusCited 375 times
- Go sideways: Fixation (visual)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: SaccadeA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A small, jerky eye movement that is a part of normal vision when fixating on an image, which seems to play a role in visual perception.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A Neural Mechanism for Microsaccade Generation in the Primate Superior Colliculus
Microsaccade dynamics during covert attention
Toward a model of microsaccade generation: The case of microsaccadic inhibition
Human Microsaccade-Related Visual Brain Responses
Similarity of superior colliculus involvement in microsaccade and saccade generation
On the Dissociation between Microsaccade Rate and Direction after Peripheral Cues: Microsaccadic Inhibition Revisited
Microsaccade and drift dynamics reflect mental fatigue
Bayesian microsaccade detection
🆕 Influential since 2022
Microsaccade-inspired event camera for robotics
Microsaccades reflect attention shifts: a mini review of 20 years of microsaccade research
Attentional shifts bias microsaccade direction but do not cause new microsaccades
The dynamics of microsaccade amplitude reflect shifting of covert attention
Human microsaccade cueing modulation in visual- and memory-delay saccade tasks after theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation over the frontal eye field
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕The Oxford handbook of eye movementsSimon P. Liversedge · 2011
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🔗 Related topics
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