ValeInTheArk (asker) Feb 8, 2022:

From what I have personally gathered, scientific literature in the English language tends to classify 4 major eye movements (fixation, saccades, smooth pursuit movements, vergence movements), whereas Italian scientific literature identifies 5 major types (fissazione, saccadici, di arrampicamento, inseguimento and convergenza). Therefore "Arrampicamento" is literally a movement in between saccades and smooth pursuit, also defined as " the ability to shift one's gaze with regular jerks, without losing fixation, from one object to another along a sequence of objects placed at an angular distance equal to or below 15°." Due to its very specific nature (see the correlation to the angular distance between target objects), I am still waiting to receive further advice from the community. Many thanks!

JudyC Feb 2, 2022:

I've found a definition here (in the box Movimenti Oculari)

https://tinyurl.com/yc76zwyh

also confirmed by a description of an exercise on page 12 of this pdf

https://aiorao.it/prisma/PRISMA_2_2017.pdf


Could it be "gaze shifting"?

Luigi Argentino Feb 2, 2022:

Personal hypothesis I don't know if there is a specific definition (for example: rapid pursuit eye movement, ballistic eye movement ?). Since they are saccadic movements (rapid pursuit movements), I would translate simply: "larger/wider saccadic movements" against the "smooth pursuit eye movements" (inseguimento lento-fluidi).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10991/

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Human_saccadic_eye_movem...