“Saccadic eye movements are the primary means by which people gather information about the environment. An average fixation duration is a fraction of a second in natural viewing conditions. … How the brain maintains perceptual stability across these interruptions remains a mystery. Here, we combined a unique psychophysical protocol with bespoke analytical tools to investigate such active vision with greater spatial and temporal resolution than ever before. We show that the visual system can compute a visual object’s real-world position in the earliest stages of processing, thereby allowing precise object tracking across saccades.”

Find the paper and authors list in PNAS.