Neuroscience: Tiny Eye Movements Link Vision and Attention.
Eye movements are essential to human vision. A new study shows that the tiny eye movements we make while holding our gaze on a point of interest are associated with brief, attention-like changes in the sensitivity of visual neurons.
Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia. Electronic address: adam.morris@monash.edu.
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