atw: Saccading and other eye-tracking phenomena (Was: Getz Tuft)

Hedley saidley:
> A recent fascinating article on human perception in a recent
> New Scientist shows how you can demonstrate to yourself that,
> during a saccade, the brain's visual processing switches off
> and you are blind. Then, when your eyes come to rest, the brain
> processes visual information again and you are sighted.
There was a discussion of saccading and other interesting matters on Radio National last month, in an interview with Simon Ings, author of 'The Eye: A Natural History'. The book sounds like a great read. 

The podcast is no longer available, but you can read the transcript at:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2007/2037362.htm

Stuart


ps. If the eye-tracking device had been trained on me during yesterday's
    Getz Tuft discussions, it would have measured a massive spike in
    eye-rolling activity.
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