Fixation and saccade control in an express-saccade maker

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 101-116

  Cavegn, Daniel ^a,b   Biscaldi, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amplitude transition functions; Express saccades; Eye movements; Human; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029965839     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00228631     Document Type: Article

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