saccadic eye movement


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saccadic eye movement

[sakad′ik]
an extremely fast voluntary movement of the eyes, allowing them to accurately refix on an object in the visual field.

saccadic eye movement

Neurology Rapid symmetrical jerking eye movements with constantly changing retinal foci from one point to another
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Key words: Saccadic eye movements, schizophrenia, electro-oculography.
Asociacion entre la alteracion de los movimientos oculares sacadicos y la esquizofrenia: un estudio de casos y controles
Combined the evidence strongly suggests that visual attention and saccadic eye movement are indeed obligatorily coupled (Schneider & Deubel, 1995).
Saccadic latency and attentional control: evidence for the pre-motor theory of attention
Saccadic eye movements and the perception of visual direction.
The phantom array: a perisaccadic illusion of visual direction
However, among all of the oculomotor functions evaluated with both conventional testing and COVS, we found that near lateral phoria, near vertical phoria, near PFV break and recovery, and pursuit and saccadic eye movements were significantly more defective in the mTBI group than the non-mTBI group.
Effectiveness of computerized oculomotor vision screening in a military population: pilot study
More specifically, in one study, participants tracked a dot target that jumped between two positions on opposite sides of a display, requiring them to follow the target with saccadic eye movements (Malmstrom, Reed, & Weber, 1983).
Effect of a concurrent auditory task on visual search performance in a driving-related image-flicker task
We find that global motion images during simulated fixational and saccadic eye movements are processed in a coordinated manner by local clusters of specific GCs in the goldfish retina.
Rapid and coordinated processing of global motion images by local clusters of retinal ganglion cells
Eight weeks from visual training exercises could affected on dynamic balance, saccadic eye movements and performance level of vault for junior gymnasts.
EFFECT OF VISUAL SKILLS TRAINING ON SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE LEVEL OF VAULT FOR JUNIOR GYMNASTS
2] on mTBI-related symptoms, we hypothesized that there would be significant differences in postcompression SPEM and saccadic eye movements between the sham and intervention groups.
Effects of hyperbaric oxygen on eye tracking abnormalities in males after mild traumatic brain injury
Laboratory research found that these flicker conditions could disrupt saccadic eye movements (2) , reduce visual performance (3) and reduce clerical work performance (4) , always in comparison to fluorescent lamps operated on high-frequency electronic ballasts.
Flicker effects on brain activity: the emergence of solid-state lighting turns attention back to flicker
We measured both fixational and saccadic eye movements on these regions during the act of speaking.
Cambios del desarrollo en la localizacion de la atencion visual durante la generacion de oraciones: un estudio de rastreo ocular
Additionally, dreaming generally occurs during REM sleep, as well as physiological events including saccadic eye movements and rapid fluctuations of respiration, heart rate and body temperature.
Potential Target to Better Treat, Cure Anxiety Disorders
An unusual aspect of the technique is that it also involves having the patient engage in therapist directed, saccadic eye movements during the treatment procedure (Boudewyns and Hyer, 1996; Shapiro, 2001).
The efficacy of eye movement desensitization reprocessing in resolving the trauma caused by the road accidents in the Sultanate of Oman

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