Smooth pursuit tracking of an abrupt change in target direction: Vector superposition of discrete responses

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 245-258

  Soechting, John F ^a   Mrotek, Leigh A ^a   Flanders, Martha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Human subjects; Target acceleration; Target velocity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ERROR; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 12144269041     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2010-2     Document Type: Article

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