Ocular fixation is a dynamic process that is actively controlled by many of the same brain
structures involved in the control of eye movements, including the superior colliculus, …

Inherent in visual scene analysis is a bottleneck associated with the need to sequentially
sample locations with foveating eye movements. The concept of a ‘saliency map’ …

Microsaccades are small eye movements that occur during gaze fixation. Although taking
place only when we attempt to stabilize gaze position, microsaccades can be understood by …

An accurate and robust face recognition system was developed and tested. This system
exploits the feature extraction capabilities of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) and invokes …

Microsaccades, or tiny eye movements that take place during periods of fixation, have long
been thought to be random artifacts of the oculomotor system. Here we demonstrate a …

During fixation, the eyes are not still but often exhibit microsaccadic movements. The function
of microsaccades is controversial, largely because the neural mechanisms responsible for …

Saccadic suppression, a behavioral phenomenon in which perceptual thresholds are
elevated before, during, and after saccadic eye movements, is an important mechanism for …

… I am also grateful to M. Hafed and A. Nieder for reading an earlier version of the manuscript.
This work was funded by the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, …

The characteristics of microsaccades, or small fixational saccades, and their influence on
visual function have been studied extensively. However, the detailed mechanisms for …

The use of awake, fixating monkeys in neuroscience has allowed significant advances in
understanding numerous brain functions. However, fixation is an active process, with the …