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optokinesis

optokinesis noun: the movement of the eye in response to an external stimulus.

Noun

optokinesis (uncountable)

  1. The movement of the eye in response to an external stimulus
    • 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...2015 August 20, “Driver Gaze Behavior Is Different in Normal Curve Driving and when Looking at the Tangent Point”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of optokinesis

From opto- + -kinesis.

Questions about optokinesis

What does optokinesis mean?
Optokinesis means the movement of the eye in response to an external stimulus.
What part of speech is optokinesis?
Optokinesis is a noun.

Words near optokinesis in the dictionary

  1. optoinjection
  2. optoisolated
  3. optoisolation
  4. optoisolator
  5. optoisolators
  6. optokinesis
  7. optokinetic
  8. optokinetically
  9. optological
  10. optologist
  11. optologists

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