The impact of microsaccades on vision: Towards a unified theory of saccadic function

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 83-96

  Martinez Conde, Susana ^a   Otero Millan, Jorge ^a,b   MacKnik, Stephen L ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; SACCADES; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84872576785     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3405     Document Type: Review

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