title: Phase-synchronization decay of fixational eye movements.
abstract: In nonstationary noisy systems the traditional cross-correlation method may not appropriately detect all cases of interdependencies between coupled systems. The phase-synchronization method was previously found useful in detecting synchronization in several systems. We here applied the phase-synchronization decay to study the synchronization between six combinations of binocular fixational eye movement components. We found that only two components were synchronized: the right and left horizontal with each other and the right and left vertical. Furthermore, the vertical-vertical components were much more synchronized than the horizontal.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Raman-Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: Shay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moshel
authors.forename: Jinrong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Avi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Caspi
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Engbert
authors.forename: Reinhold
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kliegl
authors.forename: Shlomo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Havlin
authors.forename: Ari Z
authors.initials: AZ
authors.lastname: Zivotofsky
mesh_terms: D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D013997:Time Factors