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What does saccadic mean?

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Adjective
  1. characterized by discontinuous or sporadic movement; jerky.
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Previous studies have shown that the right hemisphere is responsible for the eye movements in REM sleep, which are saccadic scans of targets in the dream scene.
If there are no saccadic movements as the patient follows the target, the diagram circles and crosses lie on top of each other.
Minimum duration required by the patient to fixate on the target after the saccadic eye movement has occurred.
In doing so, they perform saccadic movements, smooth pursuit movements, vergence movements, vestibular movements, and accommodation.
Second, an active blanking-off process, known as saccadic suppression, occurs, and this blocks vision for the first part of each saccade.
She observed in her treatment of people who were dealing with traumatic memories that they would have saccadic eye movements.

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