Action for Perception:

Evidence that Ongoing Eye Movements Constrain Visual Perception

The main finding of our article is that eye movements have a dramatic impact on the perceptual interpretation of visual objects. Our artistic rendition of this finding involved a cubism-inspired scene in which the appearance of a commonly recognizable object is disrupted by the presence of overlaid eye movement scan-paths and fixations.

This image was used in the Table of Contents of the November 2006 issue of Nature Neuroscience.

Ziad M. Hafed and Richard J. Krauzlis