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Visual Information Processing for Saccadic Eye Movements

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Spatially Oriented Behavior

Abstract

The appearance of a target in the human peripheral visual field frequently leads to the response of a saccadic eye movement to that target. In many cases this appears to have a reflex nature, whereas in others the movement may best be described as voluntary target following. It is suggested later that a dichotomous classification into reflex and voluntary responses is oversimplified, but for the most part the analysis in this chapter ignores this question and concentrates on the details of the process whereby the visual information about the target position leads to an accurate saccade at a particular time. Although this analysis makes use almost entirely of behavioral observations on human subjects, the explanatory concepts used are, in many cases, derived from neurophysiological knowledge of the visual and oculomotor systems.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Alan Hein

  2. INSERM Unité 94, F-69500, Bron, France

    Marc Jeannerod

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Findlay, J.M. (1983). Visual Information Processing for Saccadic Eye Movements. In: Hein, A., Jeannerod, M. (eds) Spatially Oriented Behavior. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5488-1_16

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