Target Size Modulates Saccadic Eye Movements in Humans

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 237-242

  Ploner, Christoph J ^a   Ostendorf, Florian ^a   Dick, Sandra ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PROCESS CONTROL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1242291854     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.1.237     Document Type: Article

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