The University of Barcelona echoes the article published by the resarcher of our faculty, Dra. Cristina de la Malla. 

The study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides new insights into how humans process foveal and peripheral visual information when we direct our gaze to a particular point in the scene during extremely brief fixation periods. The paper reveals that there are differences in the temporal dynamics of visual processing during these fixation periods. This discovery could have important implications for how we understand visual information in complex and dynamic environments, such as during driving and other activities that require high precision. 

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Reference article: 

De la Malla, Cristina; Poletti, Martina. “Different temporal dynamics of foveal and peripheral visual processing during fixation”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2024. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.240806712.