Effects of direction on saccadic performance in relation to lateral preferences

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 443-448

  Constantinidis, T S ^a,b   Smyrnis, N ^a,b   Evdokimidis, I ^b   Stefanis, N C ^a   Avramopoulos, D ^a   Giouzelis, I ^a   Stefanis, C N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antisaccades; Handedness; Hemifield; Hemispace; Latency; Laterality; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037713650     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1454-0     Document Type: Article

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