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adj. - Of or related to the rapid movement of the eyes between points of fixation.

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  • Smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements and neurological soft signs in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • Higher still, a condor hovers, tracking the soundless, moving line of rectangular carriages with saccadic movements of its eyes.
  • 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.
  • 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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