Directional asymmetry in smooth ocular tracking in the presence of visual background in young and adult primates

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 380-390

  Takeichi, N ^a,c   Fukushima, J ^b   Kurkin, S ^a   Yamanobe, T ^a   Shinmei, Y ^a   Fukushima, K ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional asymmetry; Primates; Smooth pursuit; Visual background; VOR cancellation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIRECTIONAL VISION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; MACACA; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OCULOGRAPHY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLERA; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VELOCITY; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 0037384402     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1367-3     Document Type: Article

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