Definition of "fixate" []

• To make fixed, stable, or stationary. (verb-transitive)
• To focus one's eyes or attention on: fixate a faint object. (verb-transitive)
• To command the attention of exclusively or repeatedly; preoccupy obsessively: "TV and newspapers were fixated on high-technology as the solution to almost everything” ( Jay Walljasper). (verb-transitive)
• Psychology To attach (oneself) to a person or thing in an immature or neurotic fashion. (verb-transitive)
• Psychology In classical psychoanalysis, to cause (the libido) to be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development. (verb-transitive)

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• "Mr. FEHRMAN: As a culture, we just kind of fixate on this idea of a writer who's alone and doing his work."
• "For the 'fixate' (dashed line with asterisks) encoding condition, the eccentricity was calculated as the mean eccentricity of the most peripheral dot of a sample pair of dots. doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0009918.g003"
• "The difference in decoded locations (separations) for the 'fixate' and 'saccade' trials are plotted in Theoretical neuronal populations response to a pair of dots."