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Effect of a scotoma on eye movements during visual search
Author(s) -
Murphy K.St.J.,
FoleyFisher J.A.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
ophthalmic and physiological optics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.147
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1475-1313
pISSN - 0275-5408
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-1313.1989.tb00915.x
Subject(s) - foveal , blind spot , eye movement , saccade , microsaccade , central scotoma , fixation (population genetics) , optometry , visual search , psychology , computer science , computer vision , ophthalmology , artificial intelligence , medicine , saccadic masking , retinal , population , environmental health
Eye movements have been recorded during a free visual search task both with and without an artificial foveal scotoma. Results of the eye movement measurements show that neither fixation durations nor mean saccade amplitudes are significantly modified by the loss of foveal vision.