Distractor effects on saccade trajectories: A comparison of prosaccades, antisaccades, and memory-guided saccades

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 431-442

  Van Zoest, Wieske ^a   Van Der Stigchel, Stefan ^b   Barton, Jason J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anti saccades; Inhibition; Memory guided saccades; Superior colliculus; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; SACCADES;

EID: 43449116632     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1243-2     Document Type: Article

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