Spontaneous eye movements during visual imagery reflect the content of the visual scene

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-38

  Brandt, Stephan A ^a   Stark, Lawrence W ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGERY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

EID: 0030901594     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1997.9.1.27     Document Type: Article

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