Blinks slow memory-guided saccades

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 734-741

  Powers, Alice S ^a   Basso, Michele A ^d,e,f   Evinger, Craig ^b,c,g  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Lid movements; Main sequence; Orbicularis oculi; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLINKING; GAZE; KINEMATICS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VELOCITY; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BLINKING; MACACA MULATTA; MEMORY; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI;

EID: 84873344759     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00746.2012     Document Type: Article

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