Hunter, S.K., & Richards, J.E. (submitted). Effects of testing position and stimulus characteristics on reflexive saccades.
This
study examined the effect of testing position and stimulus characteristics on
the eye accuracy of eye movements generated by infants to peripheral targets.
Most peripheral target localizations were accomplished with a single eye
movement. When more than one eye movement was used to localize the peripheral
target, the pattern was most often that of a large initial saccade followed by a
smaller corrective saccade. Only about 10% of the localizations were
accomplished with same-size hypometric saccades. More multiple eye movements
were used to localize peripheral targets when infants were tested in the supine
position, but no differences were found between the types of peripheral targets
used.