Eye Movements: Building a Stable World from Glance to Glance

Frequent exploratory eye-movements called saccades pose for the visual system the problem of combining information from successive fixations into an apparently seam less conscious experience. A new study shows that information from successive fixations is combined, not by fusing fixation 'snapshots', but by integrating more complex visual attributes at a mid-high level of analysis.

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