The magnitude of the fixation offset effect with endogenously and exogenously controlled saccades

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 344-352

  Forbes, Kelly ^a   Klein, Raymond M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029944080     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1996.8.4.344     Document Type: Article

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