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The Disruptive Effects of Optical Aids on Retinal Image Stability during Head Movements

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Presbyopia Research

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Eye movements exist to aid vision by directing gaze toward objects of particular interest and, should those objects move, by tracking them. There are two basic kinds of eye movements: saccadic, which serve to shift fixation and thereby bring pertinent retinal images into the fovea where vision is most acute, and smooth, which serve to keep those images in the fovea by compensating for movements of the object or the observer. Visual acuity begins to deteriorate significantly when retinal images drift at more than a few degrees per second (Westheimer and McKee, 1975), and it is the smooth eye movements that operate to minimize such drift.

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  1. Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, USA

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Miles, F.A. (1991). The Disruptive Effects of Optical Aids on Retinal Image Stability during Head Movements. In: Obrecht, G., Stark, L.W. (eds) Presbyopia Research. Perspectives in Vision Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2131-7_13

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