Decreases in the Latency of Smooth Pursuit and Saccadic Eye Movements Produced by the "Gap Paradigm" in the Monkey

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1973-1985

  Krauzlis, R J ^a   Miles, F A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Fixation; Latency; Pursuit; Saccade

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; LATENT PERIOD; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; TIME;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 0030013556     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00307-X     Document Type: Article

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