fMRI activation in the human frontal eye field is correlated with saccadic reaction time

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 605-611

  Connolly, Jason D ^a   Goodale, Melvyn A ^a   Goltz, Herbert C ^a   Munoz, Douglas P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE; EYE MOVEMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORY STIMULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 21544474125     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00830.2004     Document Type: Article

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