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We have been investigating the adaptive capabilities of a simple oculomotor system: saccadic eye movements. Saccades are rapid eye movements that take the line of gaze from one point to another very quickly, as when reading. Saccades are highly ballistic — once a saccade to a visual target has been programmed, the eyes will go to that target (or very nearly so) even if the target subsequently changes position.1 A further corrective saccade must then be made to bring the eyes to the target.
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Scollan, D.F., Nakamoto, B.K., Shelhamer, M. (1997). Adaptability and Variability in the Oculomotor System. In: Bower, J.M. (eds) Computational Neuroscience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9800-5_128
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