Spatial disparity affects visual-auditory interactions in human sensorimotor processing

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 247-252

  Harrington, Lawrence K ^a,b   Peck, Carol K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaze shifts; Human; Multisensory integration; Reaction time; Saccade

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FACILITATION; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; HEARING; HUMANS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION;

EID: 0031719478     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050512     Document Type: Article

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