Effects of age on latency and error generation in internally mediated saccades

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 627-637

  Abel, Larry A ^a,b   Douglas, Jacinta ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Eye movements; Inhibition; Latency; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORNEA REFLEX; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33847219670     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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