Congenital nystagmus: Hypotheses for its genesis and complex waveforms within a behavioral ocular motor system model

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 604-625

  Jacobs, Jonathan B ^a   Dell'Osso, Louis F ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital nystagmus; Extended foveation; Model; Saccades; Smooth pursuit

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGENITAL NYSTAGMUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFRARED RADIATION; OCULOGRAPHY; OSCILLATION; OSCILLOPSIA; PATHOGENESIS; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NYSTAGMUS, CONGENITAL; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; SACCADES;

EID: 4344573750     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.7.7     Document Type: Article

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