MIT researchers have published their findings on the "saccadic" eye movements that occur in human vision. These rapid movements turn out to be an important part of the scene recognition process and not random as previously thought. The movements come in multiple groups with each group targeting first a horizontal edge and then a vertical edge in the image. The research should tell us something about how the brain recognizes visual images and may have applications to machine vision. The complete research paper will appear in the September issue of Nature Neuroscience. Older MIT research on saccadic eye motion is available online.