title: Active vision: microsaccades direct the eye to where it matters most.
abstract: Even in the most sensitive part of human retina, the fovea, perception is not uniform. To compensate for such non-uniformity, tiny fixational microsaccades direct the optimal foveal locus to relevant parts of the fixated scene, similarly to larger exploratory saccades but on a miniature scale.
authors.affiliation: German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, 37077 Goettingen, Germany. Electronic address: ikagan@dpz.eu.
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kagan
authors.forename: Ziad M
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Hafed
mesh_terms: D005133:Eye Movements; D005584:Fovea Centralis / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D014785:Vision, Ocular