Differentiation between vergence and saccadic functional activity within the human frontal eye fields and midbrain revealed through fMRi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Alkan, Yelda ^a   Biswal, Bharat B ^b   Alvarez, Tara L ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CUNEUS; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPPLEMENTARY EYE FIELD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MESENCEPHALON; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SACCADES;

EID: 80355123588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025866     Document Type: Article

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