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Vision with a Stabilized Retinal Image

Nature volume 170, pages 36–37 (1952)Cite this article

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THE small movements of the eye which persist when a subject fixates (that is, tries to gaze steadily at a given target) have been studied by several workers1. We have endeavoured to deduce the movements of the image across the retina from a recent study of the rotations of the eyeball2. The movements of the retinal image have the effect of moving the boundary between two regions of differing brightness across the retinal pattern of receptors and may therefore play an important part in vision.

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  1. Summarized by Lord and Wright, Reports on Progress in Physics. 13, 1 (1951).

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  1. B. L. GINSBORG

    Present address: the Biophysical Research Laboratory, University College, London,

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  1. Physics Department, University, Reading,

    R. W. DITCHBURN & B. L. GINSBORG

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DITCHBURN, R., GINSBORG, B. Vision with a Stabilized Retinal Image. Nature 170, 36–37 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170036a0

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