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What Is Integrated Across Fixations?

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Eye Movements and Visual Cognition

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Our strongest introspection in perception is of a stable world. However, the visual system obtains an input that is far from stable. In normal viewing conditions—when the eye is not tracking a moving object—the eyes stay relatively immobile for periods of only a fraction of a second. In between these periods of rest (called fixations), there are rapid ballistic eye movements (called saccades) in which the retinal image is merely a smear. Thus, vision usually consists of the following sequence of events: an interval of a sixth to about a half a second in which there is a stable retinal image followed by a brief interval of a smear, an interval with a different stable retinal image, another smear, and so on (Rayner, 1978a). A central question of visual perception is how the percept of a stable world emerges from all this chaos.

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Pollatsek, A., Rayner, K. (1992). What Is Integrated Across Fixations?. In: Rayner, K. (eds) Eye Movements and Visual Cognition. Springer Series in Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2852-3_10

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