Influence of gap and overlap paradigms on saccade latencies and vergence eye movements in seven-year-old children

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-57

  Bucci, Maria Pia ^a   Pouvreau, Nathalie ^a   Yang, Qing ^a   Kapoula, Zoï ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Children; Express saccade; Gap; Latency; Overlap; Saccades; Vergence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CHILD; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 21244474006     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2214-0     Document Type: Article

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