Human eye-head gaze shifts in a distractor task. II. Reduced threshold for initiation of early head movements

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1406-1421

  Corneil, Brian D ^a   Munoz, Douglas P ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0032860319     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.3.1406     Document Type: Article

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