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SUBMITTER: Costela FM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4205003 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Costela Francisco M FM Otero-Millan Jorge J McCamy Michael B MB Macknik Stephen L SL Troncoso Xoana G XG Jazi Ali Najafian AN Crook Sharon M SM Martinez-Conde Susana S
PloS one 20141021 10
Our eyes move continuously. Even when we attempt to fix our gaze, we produce "fixational" eye movements including microsaccades, drift and tremor. The potential role of microsaccades versus drifts in the control of eye position has been debated for decades and remains in question today. Here we set out to determine the corrective functions of microsaccades and drifts on gaze-position errors due to blinks in non-human primates (Macaca mulatta) and humans. Our results show that blinks contribute t ...[more]