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During a change-of-fixation eye movement, the target toward which S was shifting his gaze was displaced 1° toward the original point of fixation so that the eye made an overshoot with respect to the new target position. When this was repeated several times in succession, the eye movement control system made an adjustment such that the overshoot gradually diminished. Ihe end-result of this “parametric adjustment” was that a visual target 10° from the fovea elicited an eye movement of only 9.1°.
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The research described here was supported in part by contract MD-2714 with the U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, and in part by Research Grant GB-4196 from the National Science Foundation.
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McLaughlin, S.C. Parametric adjustment in saccadic eye movements. Perception & Psychophysics 2, 359–362 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03210071
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