Cortical activity preceding vertical saccades: A MEG study

Brain Research

Volumn 1321, Issue , 2010, Pages 105-116

  Tzelepi, Areti ^a,c   Laskaris, Nikos ^b   Amditis, Aggelos ^c   Kapoula, Zoi ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Exploratory data analysis; Motor preparation; Spatial attention; Vertical asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SACCADES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77549088021     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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