Eye movement control by the cerebral cortex

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-25

  Pierrot Deseilligny, Charles ^a,c   Milea, Dan ^a   Müri, René M ^b  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Cingulate cortex; Eye movements; Frontal eye field; Parietal eye field; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORNEA REFLEX; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE TRACKING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBICULUM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; MEMORY; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; ORIENTATION; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 1542269072     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-200402000-00005     Document Type: Review

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