Describes a novel visual illusion that reveals a compensation mechanism based on visual motion signals. Observers were adapted to a patch of dynamic random noise and then viewed a larger pattern of static random noise. The static noise in the unadapted regions then appeared to 'jitter' coherently in random directions. Several observations indicate that this visual jitter directly reflects fixational eye movements. The authors propose a model that accounts for this illusion as well as the stability of the visual world during small and/or slow eye movements such as fixational drift, smooth pursuit and low-amplitude mechanical vibrations of the eyes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)

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