The 'gap paradigm' leads to express-like saccadic reaction times in Parkinson's disease

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 131-138

  Roll, A ^a   Wierzbicka, M M ^b,c   Wolf, W ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Express saccades; Gap effect; Human; Parkinson's disease; Reaction time; Saccadic eye movements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029764841     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00229562     Document Type: Article

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