title: Latency of peripheral saccades.
abstract: Displaying the point of gaze to the observer in addition to a point target provides a secondary visual feedback (2VFB). Eccentric fixation is achieved using a biased 2VFB to yield an experimentally imposed "eccentric fovea." The target is suddenly moved to a new position and the task is to regain it, in the "eccentric fovea". It is found that the pattern of eye-movement response consistently starts with saccadric foveal exploration of the target, but its latency has twice the duration of a regular voluntary saccade. Practice, however, makes for the shortened latency tending asymptotically to the regular saccadic duration.
mesh_terms: D005133:Eye Movements; D005246:Feedback; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D011930:Reaction Time; D012438:Saccades