ABSTRACT
Human visual perception occurs within the context of saccadic eye movements. Our behavior in the visual world is characterized by our ability (a) to detect potentially salient stimuli in the peripheral fields and bring them, rapidly and accurately, to the fovea, and (b) to inspect these stimuli in a succession of fixational pauses that permit foveal scrutiny of each of their fine details. Our visual systems are highly specialized for these adaptive behavioral sequences, and the eye movements that characterize them occur with a frequency of more than one per second for most of our waking lives.
