The Neural Control of Visually Guided Eye Movements
A. The Classification of Eye Movements


Bust of Nefertiti and saccade tracesFigure 1 by Yarbus* shows eye-movement traces while a subject explores a picture of the bust of Nefertiti. We make about 3 saccadic eye movements a second and more than 150,000 saccadic eye movements a day.

 

 

 

 

*from "Eye Movements and Vision" by A. L. Yarbus; Plenum Press, New York; 1967.

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