Human eye-head gaze shifts preserve their accuracy and spatiotemporal trajectory profiles despite long-duration torque perturbations that assist or oppose head motion

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-56

  Boulanger, Mathieu ^a   Galiana, Henrietta L ^b   Guitton, Daniel ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eye head coordination; Orienting gaze shifts; Trajectory planning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIRECTIONAL VISION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TORQUE; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TORQUE;

EID: 84863316892     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01092.2011     Document Type: Article

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