title: Active vision: fixational eye movements help seeing space in time.
abstract: The significance of the miniature eye movements that we make during visual fixation has been intensely debated for the last 80 years. Recent studies have revealed that these motions of the eyes fulfill an important functional role: helping to extract useful information from natural scenes.
authors.affiliation: German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, 37077 Goettingen, Germany. ikagan@dpz.eu
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kagan
mesh_terms: D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans