Andrew Huberman· PhD
indeed, microsaccades, little smaller saccades, occur all the time also prevent our eyes from fixating in one location long enough to observe our blind spot, even if one eye is closed.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
indeed, microsaccades, little smaller saccades, occur all the time also prevent our eyes from fixating in one location long enough to observe our blind spot, even if one eye is closed.
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When you look at a visual scene or image, if you did not have those little microsaccades, your brain would adapt or would attenuate to whatever you were looking at, and the visual image would actually disappear, which really speaks to how important it is that your perceptions change in order to maintain them.