The spatio-temporal tuning of the mechanisms in the control of saccadic eye movements

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 3886-3897

  White, Brian J ^a   Kerzel, Dirk ^b   Gegenfurtner, Karl R ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Saccade latency; Spatial frequency; Spatio temporal tuning; Temporal frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748620282     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.06.012     Document Type: Article

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