The origin of ocular microtremor in man

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 556-562

  Spauschus, Alexander ^a   Marsden, Jon ^a   Halliday, David M ^b   Rosenberg, Jay R ^b   Brown, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Eye movements; Human; Ocular microtremor; Partial coherence

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR;

ADULT; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSCILLOMETRY; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR;

EID: 0033010979     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050764     Document Type: Article

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