Masking the smeared perception of natural scenes tachistoscopically presented during saccades: A follow-up on Campbell & Wurtz (1978).

Abstract

Each saccade that we make results in high-velocity image shifts on the retina, inducing large-field motion blur, so-called intra-saccadic smear. Campbell & Wurtz (1978) showed that stable pre- and post-saccadic retinal images are sufficient to eliminate the percept of a smeared image. Here we investigated post-saccadic masking of intra-saccadic smear induced by a wide range of natural scenes.