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In this paper we employ a driven harmonic oscillator to satisfactorily describe data corresponding to ocular movements produced during a visual search task. The data is acquired with an EyeLink 1000. We describe the details of the oscillations in the eye’s rotation angles in between 4 and 40\(^{\circ }\) observed before and after the saccadic and microsaccadic moments. We perform an analysis of the efficiency in the use of the energy of the associated harmonic oscillator.
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We want to thank the support by PGI (24/F065) of the Universidad Nacional del Sur.
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Specht, J.I., Freije, M.L., Frapiccini, A.L., de Luis Garcia, R., Gasaneo, G. (2018). A Simple Physical Representation for Saccadic Eye Movement Data. In: Tavares, J., Natal Jorge, R. (eds) VipIMAGE 2017. ECCOMAS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68195-5_93
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