A visual scene that is to be inspected may often, in laboratory experiments, contain an explicit mark or target to which the observer is instructed to direct their gaze. This fixation point will become imaged on the FOVEOLA, the region of the RETINA...

Fixation or visual fixation is the maintaining of the visual gaze on a location. Humans (and other animals with a fovea) typically alternate saccades and visual fixations, the notable exception being in smooth pursuit, controlled by a different set of...