Further evidence for selective difficulty of upward eye pursuit in juvenile monkeys: Effects of optokinetic stimulation, static roll tilt, and active head movements

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 306-321

  Kasahara, Satoshi ^a   Akao, Teppei ^a   Fukushima, Junko ^a   Kurkin, Sergei ^a   Fukushima, Kikuro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Directional asymmetry; Head free pursuit; Roll tilt; Smooth pursuit; Visual background

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD POSITION; HEAD TILTING; MALE; MONKEY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RETINA; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA; MALE; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; REFLEX;

EID: 33646863269     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0278-5     Document Type: Article

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