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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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She observed in her treatment of people who were dealing with traumatic memories that they would have saccadic eye movements.
There are more saccadic movements for eye movements to the right than for movements to the left.
Blinks and saccadic eye movements could easily be distinguished from the horizontal slow eye movements that appeared in Stage 1 sleep.
Greater saccadic selectivity towards those distractors sharing shape with the target was observed when more discriminable shapes were employed.
In doing so, they perform saccadic movements, smooth pursuit movements, vergence movements, vestibular movements, and accommodation.
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.

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