saccade

IPA: sˈækˈeɪd

(rare) A sudden jerking movement.
A rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another.
The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
(music) The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow.

Examples of "saccade" in Sentences

The brain sends instructions to the eyes, the eyes respond with movement (called a saccade).
Nishigaki and Arai have turned to blind spot position and the so-called saccade response for their biometric.
In 'saccade' trials a 200 ms blank gap was introduced in order to speed up a saccade toward the first presented dot
That can be attributed to something called a saccade—a fast movement of the eye that lasts between 20 and 200 milliseconds.
For the 'saccade' (solid line with circles) condition, the eccentricity corresponded directly with the distance between the sample dots.
The lower panels characterize neuronal populations responses to the visual stimuli in the 'saccade' (left) and the 'fixate' (right) conditions.
In the 'saccade' condition while foveating one of the sample dots the horizontal separation between the dots corresponded directly with eccentricity.
The left panel represents a 'saccade' trial when an observer foveates the leftward dot and at the same time encodes the rightward dot by peripheral vision.