The control of saccade trajectories: Direction of curvature depends on prior knowledge of target location and saccade latency

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 129-138

  Walker, Robin ^a   McSorley, Eugene ^b   Haggard, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646454032     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193663     Document Type: Article

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