Interaction between visual- and goal-related neuronal signals on the trajectories of saccadic eye movements

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 707-717

  White, Brian J ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^b   Munoz, Douglas P ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISTRACTIBILITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HAPLORHINI; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FEMALE; GOALS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84856321150     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00162     Document Type: Article

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