Prolongation of latency of horizontal saccades in elderly is distance and task specific

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 751-759

  Yang, Q ^a   Kapoula, Z ^a   Debay, E ^a   Coubard, O ^a   Orssaud, C ^b   Samson, M ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^c Henri Dunant Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

Cortical degeneration; Distance effect; Elderly; Express latencies; Gap overlap; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPACE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 29144443522     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.08.027     Document Type: Article

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