Microsaccades keep the eyes' balance during fixation

Psychological Science

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 431-436

  Engbert, Ralf ^a   Kliegl, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SACCADES; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 2942672919     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00697.x     Document Type: Article

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