Our brains create a stable view of the world even though our eyes dart around. A study of how the brain might compensate for eye movements reveals an unexpected twist in the vision-stabilizing mechanism. See Letter p.504
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Assad, J. Updating views of visual updating. Nature 507, 434–435 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/507434a
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