Abstract

We perceive the external world as stable despite saccadic eye movements. How this is achieved has been one of the important problems in the field of vision research. In recent years, several studies have shown that the subject can perceive a stable stimulus even if the stimulus is displaced a certain amount during saccades.^1-4) In our previous study, ²⁾ we found that tolerable displacement size for perceiving a stable stimulus was influenced by properties of a stimulus. The subject tended to detect movements in the parts of a picture that appeared conspicuous. On the other hand, the subject was not able to notice movements in rather homogeneous parts of the picture. It remains to be elucidated what features of a picture have an effect on integrating visual information across saccades.

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