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- adjective characterized by discontinuous or
sporadic movement;jerky .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or related to the rapid movement of the eyes between points of fixation
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Examples
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Restless Cities Walking TourLFA invites the adventurous on this "saccadic stroll" led by Esther Leslie, professor of political aesthetics at London's Birkbeck College.
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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.
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The saccadic movements of your eyes as you scan the words, capturing photons, transform the energy of photons captured on a farm not long ago.
Archive 2008-11-01 doyle 2008
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Higher still, a condor hovers, tracking the soundless, moving line of rectangular carriages with saccadic movements of its eyes.
justinker Diary Entry justinker 2008
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The saccadic movements of your eyes as you scan the words, capturing photons, transform the energy of photons captured on a farm not long ago.
Grace doyle 2008
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In contrast, the time compression reported here only occurred with visual stimuli, not with auditory clicks, and was largely independent of saccadic size.
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In contrast, the time compression reported here only occurred with visual stimuli, not with auditory clicks, and was largely independent of saccadic size.
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Also lending a hand may be a neural mechanism which turns off saccadic suppression if the velocity of the eyes matches that of a moving object with your eyes stationary a moving object is blurred, with your eyes moving a stationary object is blurred, but if your eyes move at the same speed as an object you can get a clear image.
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Also lending a hand may be a neural mechanism which turns off saccadic suppression if the velocity of the eyes matches that of a moving object with your eyes stationary a moving object is blurred, with your eyes moving a stationary object is blurred, but if your eyes move at the same speed as an object you can get a clear image.
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Concetta Morrone, John Ross and David Burr have just reported in Nature Neuroscience that subjective time is compressed around the onset of a saccadic eye movement.
uselessness commented on the word saccadic
Jerky, spasmodic motion. Bordwell uses it in reference to the camera motions in the movie The Bourne Ultimatum. See also Queasicam.
August 24, 2007
reesetee commented on the word saccadic
It's used in optometry-speak, too--refers to the fast, jerky movements of the eye that help redirect the line of sight. The movements help the eyes fix on a stationary object as the head turns or as a person moves.
August 24, 2007
uselessness commented on the word saccadic
That's the idea I get from its use on Bordwell's site. The jerky, nervous camera with ever-changing focus is supposed to imitate the path of the human eye as it seeks out relevant information and moves past everything else. The director uses it to steer our attention towards the plot points he wants us to see; but the technique also steers us away from flaws like poor acting or set design. Some have argued that it's a directorial cop-out disguised as artistic vision.
August 24, 2007
reesetee commented on the word saccadic
I don't know much about film directing. But it's one thing to have your own eyeballs be saccadic. It's another to have the motion forced on you by a camera. It has always felt jarring to me, no matter what effect the director is aiming for, because it isn't your own eyes doing the "jumping"; it's chosen for you. And it does make one feel queasy at times--well, at least it does so for me.
By the way, thanks for the website link. I'd not seen it before. :-)
August 24, 2007
uselessness commented on the word saccadic
Agreed. I just found that site myself and thought I'd share it. I've always found cinematography fascinating and this guy seems to have a real insider's perspective on the art. And he can write, too. ;-)
August 24, 2007
reesetee commented on the word saccadic
Yes, he can! I always enjoy a good writer. :-)
Too bad chained_bear isn't around these days--another cinematography buff....
August 24, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word saccadic
*yoinked* to my adjectives list!
May 5, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word saccadic
*yoinked* again to my cc list.
May 5, 2011