Smooth pursuit eye movements and optokinetic nystagmus

Developments in Ophthalmology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2007, Pages 76-89

  Buttner U ^a,b   Kremmyda, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; HUMAN; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL CORTEX;

HUMANS; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34249691389     PISSN: 02503751     EISSN: 16622790     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000100350     Document Type: Review

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