Fixation (psychology)

Fixations during the first 2 seconds when looking at an image without special instructions. The picture shows how the foveal system supplements the perceptual image with 6 fixations in two seconds: Fixation 0 is the random position of the eye at the start of the experiment.
Fixations 1 to 6 expand the perception of the peripherally (blurred) perceived image content. According to data from Yarbus.

Fixations are so-called eye stops ( eye stops ) that z. B. when viewing a picture or when reading , and in general during visual perception with the help of eye movement registration can be recorded and analyzed.

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1. ↑ Hans-Werner Hunziker : In the eye of the reader. Foveal and peripheral perception; from spelling to reading pleasure . Transmedia Stäubli Verlag, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7266-0068-6 .
2. ↑ Alfred L. Yarbus: Eye movements and vision . Plenum Press, New York 1967.