Velocity profile of smooth pursuit eye movements in humans: Pursuit velocity increase linked with the initial saccade occurrence

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 201-209

  Ogawa, Tadashi ^a,b   Fujita, Masahiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human; Saccade; Smooth pursuit; Synchronization; Velocity profile

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; VELOCITY;

HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031663947     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(98)00038-8     Document Type: Article

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