Age-related changes in smooth pursuit initiation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-7

  Knox, Paul C ^a   Davidson, Jillian H ^a   Anderson, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Mossley Hill Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movement; Motion processing; Smooth pursuit

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; REACTION TIME;

EID: 23844497723     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2265-2     Document Type: Article

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