Local feedback signals are not distorted by prior eye movements: Evidence from visually evoked double saccades

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 533-538

  Goossens, H H L M ^a   Van Opstal, A J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0030855614     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.78.1.533     Document Type: Article

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