Fixation offset facilitates saccades and manual reaching for single but not multiple target displays

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 223-232

  Song, Joo Hyun ^a   Nakayama, Ken ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Gap effect; Manual pointing; Perceptual discrimination; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE HAND COORDINATION; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ARM; ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847007359     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0667-4     Document Type: Article

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