Human express saccade makers are impaired at suppressing visually evoked saccades

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 199-214

  Biscaldi, Monica ^a   Fischer, Burkhart ^a   Stuhr, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029894076     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.76.1.199     Document Type: Article

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