The oculomotor gap effect without a foveal fixation point

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 833-841

  Fendrich, Robert ^a   Demirel, Shaban ^b   Danziger, Shai ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fixation cells; Gap effect; Saccadic reaction times; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RETINA FOVEA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 0032891944     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00164-3     Document Type: Article

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