Fixational ocular motor control is plastic despite visual deprivation

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 475-481

  Hall, E C ^a,b   Ciuffreda, K J ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Feedback; Fixation; Oculomotor; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE POSITION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GAZE; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; PERCEPTION; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEEDBACK; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036663879     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523802194090     Document Type: Article

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