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SUBMITTER: Malevich T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7442486 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Malevich Tatiana T Buonocore Antimo A Hafed Ziad M ZM
eLife 20200806
The eyes are never still during maintained gaze fixation. When microsaccades are not occurring, ocular position exhibits continuous slow changes, often referred to as drifts. Unlike microsaccades, drifts remain to be viewed as largely random eye movements. Here we found that ocular position drifts can, instead, be very systematically stimulus-driven, and with very short latencies. We used highly precise eye tracking in three well trained macaque monkeys and found that even fleeting (~8 ms durati ...[more]