Age-related performance of human subjects on saccadic eye movement tasks

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 391-400

  Munoz, D P ^a   Broughton, J R ^a   Goldring, J E ^a   Armstrong, I T ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Anti saccade; Express saccade; Frontal cortex; Reaction times; Saccade; Senescence; Visual fixation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 0031856320     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050473     Document Type: Article

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