The control of vertical saccades in aged subjects

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-77

  Yang, Qing ^a,b   Kapoula, Zoï ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Cortical degeneration; Express latencies; Gap overlap; Vertical saccades; Volitional control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 33645989118     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0249-x     Document Type: Article

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