Abstract
The proposal that there is an inherent capability in humans to produce bursts of fluttering saccades was tested by comparing Purkinje image eye movement recordings in subjects with voluntary nystagmus and control subjects. Voluntary nystagmus is composed of recurrent saccades without an intersaccade interval and has been proposed to be an inherited event. No difference in saccade peak velocity-amplitude curves or microsaccades during visual fixation was found between the two groups. With training control subjects learned to produce runs of saccadic flutter identical to voluntary nystagmus. This learned flutter was composed of recurrent complete saccades rather than saccades interrupted in midflight. Voluntary flutter is thus not a genetic trait but a learned event that is usually undeveloped in man. These observations can be explained by the Robinson model of saccade generation and indicate that similar models must have an inherent ability to produce saccadic flutter.
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