Saccadic performance as a function of the presence and disappearance of auditory and visual fixation stimuli

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 206-213

  Taylor, Tracy L ^a   Klein, Raymond M ^a   Munoz, Douglas P ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; NOISE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0032902982     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892999563337     Document Type: Article

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