Self-motion-induced eye movements: Effects on visual acuity and navigation

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 966-976

  Angelaki, Dora E ^a   Hess, Bernhard J M ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CORNEA REFLEX; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTOR POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 28644442115     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1804     Document Type: Review

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