This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Microsaccade" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(December 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
For other uses, see 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 (of at least several seconds), not only in humans, but also in animals with foveal vision (primates, cats, dogs etc.). 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.[1][2]
^Darwin, R. W.; Darwin, E. (1786). "New Experiments on the Ocular Spectra of Light and Colours" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 76: 313–348. doi:10.1098/rstl.1786.0016. JSTOR 106628.
^Rolfs, Martin (2009). "Microsaccades: Small steps on a long way". Vision Research. 49 (20): 2415–41. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.010. PMID 19683016.
Microsaccades are a kind of fixational eye movement. They are small, jerk-like, involuntary eye movements, similar to miniature versions of voluntary...
~200 ms; any longer than this is outside the express saccade range. Microsaccades are a related type of fixational eye movement that are small, jerk-like...
in and out of focus, in a series of movements called photoreceptor microsaccades. This gives them, and possibly many other insects, a much clearer image...
there is a causal relationship. Myopia is also correlated with increased microsaccade amplitude, suggesting that blurred vision from myopia might cause instability...
drift, ocular tremor, and microsaccades. Some irregular drifts, movements smaller than a saccade and larger than a microsaccade, subtend up to one tenth...
19 January 2021. Alexander RG, Macknik SL, Martinez-Conde S (2018). "Microsaccade Characteristics in Neurological and Ophthalmic Disease". Frontiers in...
any image is moved over the retina by small eye movements known as microsaccades before much adaptation can occur. However, if the image is very intense...
called fixational eye movements, and they include ocular microtremor, microsaccades, and drift. Ocular tremor is the smallest of these movements, and it...
a plate, a cup and cutlery. Two of the patients were found to make microsaccades similar to those of healthy control participants, and the properties...
deficit In the fixation system, the ocular motor noise that comes from microsaccades, microtremors and slow drifts (all necessary for important perceptual...
Pikovsky, A. (2011). "An integrated model of fixational eye movements and microsaccades". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (39): E765-70...
there are different types of eye movements: fixational eye movements (microsaccades, ocular drift, and tremor), vergence movements, saccadic movements and...
the eye following a moving object. Fixational eye movements include microsaccades: small, involuntary saccades that occur during attempted fixation. Most...
JSTOR 106628. (communicated by Erasmus Darwin) Rolfs, Martin (2009), "Microsaccades: Small steps on a long way", Vision Research, 49 (20): 2415–41, doi:10...
dysmetria will constantly produce abnormal eye movements including microsaccades, ocular flutter, and square wave jerks even when the eye is at rest...
Epilepsy, Sally Fletcher (2005) Gamma: Insight and Consciousness… Or just Microsaccades? – A summary of recent research. 2009-06-26. McDermott B, Porter E,...
Alexander, Robert G.; Macknik, Stephen L.; Martinez-Conde, Susana (2019). "Microsaccades in Applied Environments: Real-World Applications of Fixational Eye Movement...
to peripheral stimuli, but later studies found that small saccades (microsaccades) occur during these tasks, and that these eye movements are frequently...
PMCID PMC7725399 Martinez-Conde, S., Engbert, R., & Groner, R. (2020). Microsaccades: Empirical research and methodological advances - Introduction to part...
Global Information