In
vision science, stabilized Images are
images that remain immobile on the
retina. Under natural viewing conditions, the
eyes are always in motion. Small
eye movements continually occur even when attempting
fixation (the maintenance of steady gaze on a single point). Experiments in the early 1950s established that stabilized images result in the fading and disappearance of the
visual percept, possibly due to retinal
adaptation to a stationary field.[1] In 2007, studies indicated that stabilizing vision between
saccades selectively impairs vision of fine spatial detail.[2][3][4]
Images can be stabilized mechanically with optics mounted on the eye itself, or the image can be continually updated on a display to counteract the effects of eye movements.[5] Because no existing method creates perfect image stabilization, this leaves open the question of whether all perfectly stabilized images disappear completely.[6]
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