Saccadic momentum and facilitation of return saccades contribute to an optimal foraging strategy.

The interest in saccadic IOR is funneled by the hypothesis that it serves a clear functional purpose in the selection of fixation points: the facilitation of foraging. In this study, we arrive at a different interpretation of saccadic IOR. First, we find that return saccades are performed much more...

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Main Authors: Niklas Wilming, Simon Harst, Nico Schmidt, Peter König
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3547797?pdf=render