Eye movements change according to peripheral information
Ieva Timrote, Agnese Reinvalde, Madara Zirdzina, Tatjana Pladere, Gunta Krūmiņa · F1000Research · 2013
High-speed saccadic eye movements serve the function of moving the fovea on to the part of array that we want to process in detail. The contribution of peripheral vision is essential in planning and controlling saccadic eye movements. For this reason, central information analysis and selection of next saccadic targets can affect saccades, fixation duration and time needed to complete the visual search task [1]. Methods are developing to train saccades, fixations and effective information processing via magnocelullar flow using visual search task [2, 3]. Moreover, only one target is chosen to be found amongst other distractors in a visual search task. Therefore the aim of the present study was to define whether influence of peripheral information could be traced in the parameters of eye movements and fixations. Apart from this, the efficiency of the performance of visual search task was investigated.