Stationary and pursuit visual fixation share similar behavior

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 751-763

  Boman, Duane ^a,b,c   Braun, Doris ^a,b,d   Hotson, John ^a,b  

^a SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Greenleaf Medical Systems   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fixation; Flicker; Saccade; Smooth pursuit; Visuomotor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 0030058717     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00160-3     Document Type: Article

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