Tendencies to eye movement and perceptual accuracy.

Abstract

The direction of initial postexposure eye movements was studied in a tachistoscopic situation in which a row of numerals appeared across the visual field and no eye movement occurred until the cessation of stimulation. A congruence was found between the direction of the initial eye movement and the side of the visual field more accurately perceived. This finding supports the hypothesis that differential tendencies to eye movement are associated with differential accuracy. A secondary finding was that, in monocular viewing, there were more eye movements to the side of the viewing eye.