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saccadic

saccadic

1 9.9
Showing quick eye movements when the eyes jump between points
  • adjective
  • /səˈkædɪk/
  • Specialized
: sacádico
  • The patient's saccadic responses were slower than normal, indicating a potential issue with their visual processing.

Examples

  • During the test, the subjects exhibited distinct saccadic eye movements while tracking the moving targets on the screen.

  • You measure the market's percent correct performance and you measure what is saccadic latencies are to make a saccade to the target.

  • So all of these areas seem to be coding saccadic vectors, but now when you stimulate in the medial I fields, you get a very different kind of effect.

  • To illustrate, we will focus on the use of the boundary paradigm, which allows the experimenter to dynamically change the text (typically during a saccadic eye movement) based upon a reader's eye position.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Late in the evening, a person afoot on rue Quelle Blague might, by the moans and shrieks and saccadic protests, have imagined themselves passing not a monastery but a hospital or a brothel or a combination of the two.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The researcher observed the participant's saccadic movements as they quickly shifted focus from one object to another.

Synonyms

spasmodic
vssaccadic
2 8.1

Happening suddenly in short, irregular bursts or movements

is specific to rapid jerky shifts of the eyes between fixations
spasmic
vssaccadic
1 7.9

Happening in sudden short uncontrolled movements or bursts

is specific to rapid jerky shifts of the eyes between fixations

Antonyms

smooth
238 1.0

Moving or happening in an even, easy way without sudden problems

to steady
66 3.4

To make yourself or something stop moving

How Jerky

convulsive
2 8.0
saccadic
  • Specialized
1 9.9
irregular
42 3.5
smooth
238 1.0

Surface Forms

saccadic positive

Morphology

saccadic = saccade (transparent) = saccade + ic

Formed by the regular adjective-forming suffix '-ic' on the noun 'saccade', so the relation 'relating to saccades' is directly conveyed.

Etymology

Saccadic comes from the French word saccade, which means 'a sudden jerk' or quick movement. Think of your eyes making short 'jerks' as they jump from one point to another, so saccadic describes those fast, jerky eye movements.