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  2. Eye movement - Wikipedia

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    Eye movement can be classified according to two systems: the involvement of one or both eyes; involving one eye they may be classified as duction, and both eyes either version, if moving in the same direction, or vergence, if moving in opposite directions. [9] [10] fixational, gaze-stabilizing, or gaze-shifting.

  3. Purkinje effect - Wikipedia

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    An animated sequence of simulated appearances of a red flower (of a zonal geranium) and background foliage under photopic, mesopic, and scotopic conditions. The Purkinje effect or Purkinje phenomenon (Czech: [ˈpurkɪɲɛ] ⓘ; sometimes called the Purkinje shift, often pronounced / p ər ˈ k ɪ n dʒ i /) [1] is the tendency for the peak luminance sensitivity of the eye to shift toward the ...

  4. Smooth pursuit - Wikipedia

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    An eye movement shifts the orientation of the coil to induce an electric current, which is translated into horizontal and vertical eye position. The second technique is an eye tracker. This device, while somewhat more noisy, is non-invasive and is often used in human psychophysics and recently also in instructional psychology. It relies on the ...

  5. Shapeshifting - Wikipedia

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    1722 German woodcut of a werewolf transforming. Popular shapeshifting creatures in folklore are werewolves and vampires (mostly of European, Canadian, and Native American/early American origin), ichchhadhari naag (shape-shifting cobra) of India, shapeshifting fox spirits of East Asia such as the huli jing of China, the obake of Japan, the Navajo skin-walkers, and gods, goddesses and demons and ...

  6. Saccade - Wikipedia

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    Trace of saccades of the human eye on a face while scanning Saccades during observation of a picture on a computer screen. In vision science, a saccade (/ s ə ˈ k ɑː d / sə-KAHD; French:; French for 'jerk') is a quick, simultaneous movement of both eyes between two or more phases of focal points in the same direction. [1]

  7. Huh? If Your Right Eye Is Twitching, There Could Be a ... - AOL

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    The right eye twitching may suggest that the individual is undergoing uncomfortable changes. Related: The Spiritual Meaning of Dreaming About Your Ex, According to a Dream Analyst Spiritual ...

  8. Accommodation reflex - Wikipedia

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    Light from a single point of a distant object and light from a single point of a near object being brought to a focus. The accommodation reflex (or accommodation-convergence reflex) is a reflex action of the eye, in response to focusing on a near object, then looking at a distant object (and vice versa), comprising coordinated changes in vergence, lens shape (accommodation) and pupil size.

  9. Parallax - Wikipedia

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    For example, pigeons (whose eyes do not have overlapping fields of view and thus cannot use stereopsis) bob their heads up and down to see depth. [4] The motion parallax is exploited also in wiggle stereoscopy, computer graphics that provide depth cues through viewpoint-shifting animation rather than through binocular vision.