Selection within visual memory representations activates the oculomotor system

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1605-1610

  Belopolsky, Artem V ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention working memory; Eye movements; Mental representations; Saccade curvature; Superior colliculus; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; ORIENTATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955874843     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.045     Document Type: Article

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