Target displacements during eye blinks trigger automatic recalibration of gaze direction

• Main Authors: Maus, Gerrit W., Duyck, Marianne, Lisi, Matteo, Collins, Thérèse, Whitney, David, Cavanagh, Patrick
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Eye Blinks; Eye Movements
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142916
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Eye blinks cause disruptions to visual input and are accompanied by rotations of the eyeball [1]. Like every motor action, these eye movements are subject to noise and introduce instabilities in gaze direction across blinks [2]. Accumulating errors across repeated blinks would be debilitating for vi...