A startle speeds up the execution of externally guided saccades

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 129-136

  Castellote, Juan M ^a   Kumru, Hatice ^b   Queralt, Ana ^a   Valls Solé, Josep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electro oculography; Eye movements; Reaction time; Saccade; Startle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STARTLE REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; VOLUNTEER; WRIST;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; BLINKING; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES; STARTLE REACTION; WRIST;

EID: 33846686915     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0659-4     Document Type: Article

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