Contrast dependence of smooth pursuit eye movements following a saccade to superimposed targets

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Fallah, Mazyar ^a   Reynolds, John H ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; LATENT PERIOD; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

MACACA;

EID: 84861325294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037888     Document Type: Article

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