Mechanisms for generating and compensating for the smallest possible saccades

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2101-2113

  Hafed, Ziad M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Covert attention; Fixational eye movements; Microsaccades; Perception; Saccades; Voluntary eye movement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; EYE POSITION; GAZE; MICROSACCADE; NERVE CELL; OMNIPAUSE NEURON; PERCEPTION; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

BRAIN; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958025286     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07694.x     Document Type: Article

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