Neural selection and control of visually guided eye movements

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue , 1999, Pages 241-259

  Schall, Jeffrey D ^a   Thompson, Kirk G ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Countermanding; Eye field; Reaction time; Saccade; Selection; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES; VISION;

EID: 0032916130     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.22.1.241     Document Type: Review

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