The sources of variability in saccadic eye movements

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 33, 2007, Pages 8757-8770

  Van Beers, Robert J ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Model; Motor command; Movement; Noise; Saccades; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT VARIABILITY; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548057246     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2311-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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