Saccades to spatially extended targets: The role of eccentricity

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 453-456

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

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eccentricity; Saccades; Sensorimotor integration; Size; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; SACCADES; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 1542357588     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200403010-00014     Document Type: Article

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