Saccadic eye movements minimize the consequences of motor noise

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  van Beers, Robert J ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NOISE; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEREOTYPY; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; BIOASSAY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; HUMANS; NOISE; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44349110624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002070     Document Type: Article

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