The observer, who previously must not have seen the diagrams, is told to fixate with one eye the point in the middle, and to keep the other eye closed.
A final point that may help you is to use the first lapse of attention as a reminder of the object you desire to fixate upon.
We are inclined to consider as being at rest that which we fixate and to interpret the relative changes in the field of vision as movements of those parts which we do not fixate.
The more we fixate it, the more its clearness and distinctness increase.
These apparently are accounted for by involuntary eye-movements which take place regardless of the effort made to fixate vision.
Eye-movements may play some part for, despite the most serious efforts to fixate the point of sight, a fringe will appear on the borders of images which is certainly due to involuntary eye-movements.
He abstained therefore from the magnetic manipulations and produced the somnambulic state by making the patients simply fixate his hands and by ordering them to sleep.
We cannot grasp those least vivid contents of consciousness, we cannot fixate them as such, because as soon as we try to hold them, they move from the periphery of the content into its center and become themselves vivid and clear.
We must lose no opportunity to make current history impressive; we must bring out all its dramatic features in order to fixate once for all the idea of the organic unity of the race, and its necessary coördination in tangible forms.
Whatever the stimulus, the tendency is for the herd to fixate its attention upon some external object, which at once is reacted to with deep emotion.
Let a bright or moving object appear somewhere in the field of view--immediately the eyes turn towards it with a quick jump, fixate it for a few seconds and then jump elsewhere unless the object is found to be specially significant.
If the object is still, the eye must be still to see it distinctly, and to see its different parts must fixate one after the other, jumping from one part to another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fixate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: concentrate; fasten; fix; focus; put; rivet
