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. 2019 Dec 12;12(6):10.16910/jemr.12.6.5. doi: 10.16910/jemr.12.6.5

Table 1.

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Paper Method Inter-saccadic Interval Amplitude Duration λ Binocular Data Other Features
Engbert & Kliegl (2003b) New method - - ≥ 12 ms 6 yes Eyelink System (SMI), 250 Hz -
Engbert & Mergenthaler (2006) Engbert & Kliegl (2003b) - ≤1° ≥ 6 ms 5 yes Eyelink II, SR Research, 500 Hz -
Dimigen et al. (2009) Engbert & Mergenthaler (2006) 50 ms <1° ≥ 6 ms / 3 samples 5 no IView-X Hi-Speed 1250, SMI GmbH, 500 Hz -
Hsieh & Tse (2009) Engbert & Kliegl (2003b) 80 ms 0.15°−2° ≥ 4 samples 10 - Eyelink2, 250 Hz (semi-)blinks and 400 ms before/600 ms after them removed
Pastukho & Braun (2010) Engbert & Kliegl (2003b),Engbert & Kliegl (2003a) - - - - yes Eyelink 2000, SR Research, 1000 Hz modified algorithm to accommodate for a higher sampling rate
Mergenthaler & Engbert (2010) Engbert & Kliegl (2003b), Engbert & Mergenthaler (2006) 30 ms - ≥ 6 ms 3 (free viewing);
4 (fixation task)
yes Eyelink II, SR Research, 500 Hz -
Bonneh et al. (2010) Engbert & Kliegl (2003b) - 0.08°−2° ≥ 9 ms - no iViewX Hi-Speed, SMI, 240 Hz and Eyelink II, SR Research, 1000 Hz raw data smoothed with a window of 15 ms; velocity range: 8°/s−150°/s
Benedetto et al. (2011) Salvucci & Goldberg (2000) - < 1° - - no SMI X-HEAD, 200 Hz -
Otero-Millan et al. (2012) Engbert & Mergenthaler (2006) 20 ms < 2° - 6 yes Eyelink 1000, SR Research, 500 Hz -
Yokoyama et al. (2012) Engbert & Kliegl (2003b) - - ≥ 3 samples 6 yes Eyelink CL 1000, SR Research, 500 Hz no trials with eye blinks or eye position more than 2° away from center
Hicheur et al. (2013) Engbert & Mergenthaler (2006) 25 ms < 1° ≥ 10 ms 4 yes Eyelink 1000, SR Research, 1000 Hz microsaccades within 50 ms after a saccade were not considered as microsaccades
Pastukhov et al. (2013) Engbert & Kliegl (2003b) - < 60′ - - yes Eyelink 2000, SR Research, 1000 Hz square wave jerks
Di Stasi et al. (2013) Engbert & Kliegl (2003b) 20 ms < 1° ≥ 6 ms 6 yes Eyelink 1000, SR Research, 500 Hz (semi-)blinks and 200 ms before/after them removed
McCamy, Najafian Jazi et al. (2013) Engbert & Kliegl (2003b) 20 ms < 2° ≥ 6 ms 4 yes Eyelink 1000, SR Research, 500 Hz (semi-)blinks and 200 ms before/after them removed
Costela et al. (2013) Engbert & Kliegl (2003b) 20 ms < 1° ≥ 6 ms 4 yes Eyelink 1000, SR Research (semi-)blinks and 200 ms before/after them removed
McCamy, Collins et al. (2013) Engbert & Kliegl (2003b) 20 ms ≤ 2° ≥ 6 ms 6 yes Eyelink II, SR Research, 500 Hz (semi-)blinks and 200 ms before/after them removed
McCamy et al. (2014) Engbert & Kliegl (2003b), Engbert & Mergenthaler (2006) 20 ms < 1° ≥ 6 ms 6 yes Eyelink II, SR Research, 500 Hz (semi-)blinks and 200 ms before/after them removed
Privitera et al. (2014) Engbert & Kliegl (2003b) - < 1.2° - 6 and 3 no Eyelink 1000, SR Research, 1000 Hz first peak velocities were determined then their extent
Yuval-Greenberg et al. (2014) Engbert & Mergenthaler (2006) - < 1° - 6 - Eyelink 1000, SR Research, 1000/500 Hz -
Fried et al. (2014) Bonneh et al. (2010) yes > 0.1° ∧ ࣘ≤ 2° ≥ 6 ms - - Eyelink 1000, SR Research, 500 Hz (semi-)blinks and 20 ms before/after them removed; min velocity: 10°/s; peak velocity: > 18°/s
Poletti & Rucci (2016) - 15 ms 3′−30′ - - yes - -
Krejtz et al. (2018) Engbert & Kliegl (2003) - - ≥ 6 ms 6 no Eyelink 1000, SR Research, 500 Hz microsaccades detected within fixations; average position of right and left gaze points are used
Summary - 0−80 ms 6−16 ms 3 - 10 yes/no 200 - 1000 Hz min velocity: 8°/s−18°/s; max velocity: 150°/s; vel. window: 5−15 ms; ignore time after saccade: 0−50 ms; (semi-)blinks and 200 ms before/after them; ...