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Microsaccades are modulated by both attentional demands of a visual discrimination task and background noise

Hicheur, Halim ; Zozor, Steeve ; Campagne, Aurélie ; Chauvin, Alan

In: Journal of Vision, 2013, vol. 13, no. 13, p. 18

Microsaccades are miniature saccades occurring once or twice per second during visual fixation. While microsaccades and saccades share similarities at the oculomotor level, the functional roles of microsaccades are still debated. In this study, we examined the hypothesis that the microsaccadic activity is affected by the type of noisy background during the execution of a particular discrimination...