A biologically realistic cortical model of eye movement control in reading

Psychological Review

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 808-830

  Heinzle, Jakob ^a,b   Hepp, Klaus ^a   Martin, Kevan A C ^a  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical circuit; Eye movements and attention; Neural network; Oculomotor control; Reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; READING; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955379960     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019575     Document Type: Article

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