TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rolfs, Martin
T1  - Microsaccades : small steps on a long way
N2  - Contrary to common wisdom, fixations are a dynamically rich behavior, composed of continual, miniature eye movements, of which microsaccades are the most salient component. Over the last few years, interest in these small movements has risen dramatically, driven by both neurophysiological and psychophysical results and by advances in techniques, analysis, and modeling of eye movements. The field has a long history but a significant portion of the earlier work has gone missing in the current literature, in part, as a result of the collapse of the field in the 1980s that followed a series of discouraging results. The present review compiles 60 years of work demonstrating the unique contribution of microsaccades to visual and oculomotor function. Specifically, the review covers the contribution of microsaccades to (1) the control of fixation position, (2) the reduction of perceptual fading and the continuity of perception, (3) the generation of synchronized visual transients, (4) visual acuity, (5) scanning of small spatial regions, (6) shifts of spatial attention, (7) resolving perceptual ambiguities in the face of multistable perception, as well as several other functions. The accumulated evidence demonstrates that microsaccades serve both perceptual and oculomotor goals and although in some cases their contribution is neither necessary nor unique, microsaccades are a malleable tool conveniently employed by the visual system.
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00426989
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.010
SN  - 0042-6989
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Böttcher, Heiko
A1  - Rolfs, Martin
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
A1  - Ihle, Wolfgang
T1  - Inattentional blindness and change blindness bei Jungen mit ADHS : Posterpräsentation
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://psycontent.metapress.com/content/1616-3443
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1026/1616-3443.38.S1.20
SN  - 1616-3443
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
A1  - Rolfs, Martin
A1  - Laubrock, Jochen
A1  - Engbert, Ralf
T1  - Microsaccadic modulation of response times in spatial attention tasks
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://www.springerlink.com/content/101575
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-008-0202-2
SN  - 0340-0727
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Böttcher, Heiko
A1  - Rolfs, Martin
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
A1  - Ihle, Wolfgang
T1  - Inattentional blindness and change blindness bei Jungen mit ADHS
Y1  - 2009
ER  -