In our opinion saccade automation is the basic law of saccadic activity, and all diversity of eye-movement activity takes place against the background of saccade automation. Microsaccades and macrosaccades, nystagmus, and rapid eye movements during sleep may be seen as special cases of saccade automation. Saccade automation is conditioned by the activity of brain structures with pacemaker function. At the same time, only one parameter is modulated at one particular moment, for example saccade amplitude in which case interval and orientation are given in a ready form.
Saccade automation has a great functional importance.
It increases the scanned area tenfold, it provides compensation of defects in the sensors and the impellent eye apparatus and for the deletion of consecutive images, maintaining the continuity of visual perception. Moving the image on the retina increases the information of the visual channel.