Saccades during symmetrical vergence

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 246, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 521-536

  Coubard, Olivier A ^a,b   Kapoula, Zoï ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b Service de Neurologie   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Eye movement; Prefrontal cortex; Saccade; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Vergence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SACCADES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 41349101729     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0714-2     Document Type: Article

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