Reaction times of vertical prosaccades and antisaccades in gap and overlap tasks

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 88-103

  Goldring, Jenny ^a   Fischer, Burkhart ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antisaccade; Express saccades; Fixation; Reaction time; Vertical saccades

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACCADES;

EID: 0031026882     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02454145     Document Type: Article

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