optokinesis

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From opto- +‎ -kinesis.

Noun[edit]

optokinesis (uncountable)

  1. The movement of the eye in response to an external stimulus
    • 2015 August 20, “Driver Gaze Behavior Is Different in Normal Curve Driving and when Looking at the Tangent Point”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Another point to consider is that in binocular viewing, smooth pursuit follows flow of scene elements at the depth of the point of fixation, which means that in a real 3D environment optokinesis may also incorporate depth information by tracking retinal image elements with zero disparity, making stereo vision potentially relevant for steering (see discussion in [22 ]).