TY - JOUR A1 - Moshel, Shay A1 - Liang, Jin-Rong A1 - Caspi, Avi A1 - Engbert, Ralf A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold A1 - Havlin, Shlomo A1 - Zivotofsky, Ari Z. T1 - Phase-synchronization decay of fixational eye movements Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Liang, Jin-Rong A1 - Moshel, Shay A1 - Zivotofsky, Ari Z. A1 - Caspi, Avi A1 - Engbert, Ralf A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold A1 - Havlin, Shlomo T1 - Scaling of horizontal and vertical fixational eye movements N2 - Eye movements during fixation of a stationary target prevent the adaptation of the visual system to continuous illumination and inhibit fading of the image. These random, involuntary, small movements are restricted at long time scales so as to keep the target at the center of the field of view. Here we use detrended fluctuation analysis in order to study the properties of fixational eye movements at different time scales. Results show different scaling behavior between horizontal and vertical movements. When the small ballistic movements, i.e., microsaccades, are removed, the scaling exponents in both planes become similar. Our findings suggest that microsaccades enhance the persistence at short time scales mostly in the horizontal component and much less in the vertical component. This difference may be due to the need for continuously moving the eyes in the horizontal plane, in order to match the stereoscopic image for different viewing distances Y1 - 2005 SN - 1063-651X ER -