Fixations

Fixations are brief moments when the eyes stop to focus on a specific point, allowing the brain to process and understand the information being viewed. During a fixation, eye movement pauses, often lasting around 200-300 milliseconds. These pauses are essential for reading, viewing images, or analyzing details, as they enable detailed visual processing. Typically, the eyes make quick jumps, called saccades, between fixations to cover a visual scene efficiently. Fixations help us gather visual information systematically and are key to how we interpret and understand what we see.