Temporal interactions of air-puff-evoked blinks and saccadic eye movements: Insights into motor preparation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1718-1729

  Gandhi, Neeraj J ^a,b,c   Bonadonna, Desiree K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AIR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BLINKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PONS; PONTINE OMNIPAUSE NEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLINKING; EYELIDS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA MULATTA; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 14144250994     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00854.2004     Document Type: Article

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