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Open AccessV1 neurons can distinguish between motion in the world and visual displacements due to eye movements: a microsaccade study
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The impact of microsaccades on vision: towards a unified theory of saccadic function
Our eyes are never still. Even when we attempt to fix our gaze, small ocular motions — generally undetectable to the naked eye — shift our eye position. These ...
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Real magic: future studies of magic should be grounded in neuroscience
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Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research
Magic tricks require the manipulation of the audience's attention and awareness. Macknik, Martinez-Conde and their magician co-authors describe the visual and cognitive illusions that underlie many magic trick...
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Task difficulty modulates the activity of specific neuronal populations in primary visual cortex
Spatial attention works to modulate neuronal responses as early as V1, according to this study. Using electrophysiological recordings in monkey primary visual cortex, the authors found that there are two disti...
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The role of fixational eye movements in visual perception
Fixational eye movements are small displacements of the eyeballs which ensure that vision does not fade during fixation. There are three classes — tremor (the ...
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Microsaccadic eye movements and firing of single cells in the striate cortex of macaque monkeys
When viewing a stationary object, we unconsciously make small, involuntary eye movements or ‘microsaccades’. If displacements of the retinal image are prevented, the image quickly fades from perception. To und...
