Sustained eye closure slows saccades

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 1665-1675

  Shaikh, Aasef G ^a   Wong, Aaron L ^b   Optican, Lance M ^c   Miura, Kenichiro ^d   Solomon, David ^a   Zee, David S ^a,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballistic movement; Burst neurons; Omnipause neurons; Oscillations; Post inhibitory rebound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VELOCITY;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EYE MOVEMENTS; EYELIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NYSTAGMUS, PHYSIOLOGIC; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955088562     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.05.019     Document Type: Article

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