Modulation of microsaccades in monkey during a covert visual attention task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 43, 2011, Pages 15219-15230

  Hafed, Ziad M ^a   Lovejoy, Lee P ^b   Krauzlis, Richard J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL ALLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; MALE; MICROSACCADE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80054943800     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3106-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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