Microsaccades precisely relocate gaze in a high visual acuity task

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1549-1554

  Ko, Hee Kyoung ^a   Poletti, Martina ^a   Rucci, Michele ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MICROSACCADE; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 78649347756     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2663     Document Type: Article

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