Infant saccades are not slow

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 662-667

  Garbutt, Siobhan ^a   Harwood, Mark R ^b   Harris, Christopher M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA FOVEA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TIME; VELOCITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SACCADES;

EID: 33646889562     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162206001393     Document Type: Article

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