Chapter 9 Microsaccades: a microcosm for research on oculomotor control, attention, and visual perception

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue SUPPL. A, 2006, Pages 177-192

  Engbert, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

covert attention; fixational eye movements; microsaccades; random walk; visual perception

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MICROSACCADES; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TIME; VISION; ANIMAL; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; HUMANS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748935524     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)54009-9     Document Type: Review

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