This is the rhythm of your eyes: The phase of ongoing electroencephalogram oscillations modulates saccadic reaction time

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4698-4708

  Drewes, Jan ^a,b   VanRullen, Rufin ^a,b  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ALGORITHM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953002429     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4795-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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