Neuroanatomical correlates of voluntary inhibition of accommodation/ vergence under monocular open-loop viewing conditions

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3077-3088

  Richter, H O ^a,b,c   Andersson, J ^c   Schneider, H ^c   Langstrom B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Eye movements; FEF; PET; Visual cortex; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; EYE FIXATION; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NECK MUSCLES; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTURE; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VOLITION;

EID: 21444443525     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04140.x     Document Type: Article

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