“…These head saccades enabled the patient to read at normal speed and even carry out complex visuomotor tasks, such as making a cup of tea, without problems. The authors concluded that ''saccadic movements, of the head or the eye, form the optimal sampling method for the brain'' (compared with smooth scanning of the visual scene; Gilchrist et al, 1997;Gilchrist, Brown, Findlay, & Clarke, 1998;Land, Furneaux, & Gilchrist, 2002).…”