Fixation stability and saccadic latency in élite shooters

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 1837-1845

  Di Russo, Francesco ^a,b   Pitzalis, Sabrina ^b,c   Spinelli, Donatella ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eye fixation; Eye movements; Learning; Saccadic latency; Shooters

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EXERCISE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPORT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0038121860     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00299-2     Document Type: Article

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