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The aim of the experiment was to find out whether saccadiceve movements have any effect on perceived visual directions. ihe method was to alter the parameters of the oculomotor system so that the eye movement made in response to a peripheral target was inappropriate to the retinal locus of its image. It was found that this procedure had no effect on the perceived location of the peripheral target; and it was concluded that a specific retinal locus is more or less rigidly associated with a corresponding visual direction, but not with a particular magnitude of ocular rotation.
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A shortened version of this paper was presented to the Optical Society of America, 12 October, 1967, in Detrit. (J. Opt. Soc. Amer., 1967, 57, 1525A.)
This research was supported by research grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, and the Public Health Service (National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness).
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Mclaughlin, S.C., Kelly, M.J., Anderson, R.E. et al. Localization of a peripheral target during parametric adjustment of saccadic eye movements. Perception & Psychophysics 4, 45–48 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03210446
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