The unsteady eye: an information-processing stage, not a bug. Issue 4 (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rucci, Michele; Victor, Jonathan D.
• Is Part Of: Trends in neurosciences. Volume 38:Issue 4(2015)
• Page Start: 195
• Page End: 206
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: Neurology -- Periodicals; Neurophysiology -- Periodicals; Neurobiology -- Periodicals; 612.8
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2015.01.005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0166-2236

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="author-highlights" id="abs0005"> <title id="sect0005">Highlights</title> <sec> <p id="spar0005"> <list id="lis0005"> <list-item id="lsti0005"> <label></label> <p id="par0005">Small eye movements are always present during natural visual fixation.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0010"> <label></label> <p id="par0010">Fixational movements do not merely prevent the image from fading, they reformat it.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0015"> <label></label> <p id="par0015">Fixational modulations eliminate correlations before neural processing.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0020"> <label></label> <p id="par0020">Fixational modulations enhance high spatial frequencies and begin edge extraction.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0025"> <label></label> <p id="par0025">Spatial representations are intrinsically sensorimotor starting from the retina.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>