The contribution of microsaccades and drifts in the maintenance of binocular steady fixation

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 465-471

  Moller F ^a   Laursen, M L ^a   Sjolie A K ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SACCADES; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645775753     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-004-0989-5     Document Type: Article

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