An oculomotor continuum from exploration to fixation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 6175-6180

  Otero Millan, Jorge ^a   Macknik, Stephen L ^a,b   Langston, Rachel E ^a,c   Martinez Conde, Susana ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixational eye movements; Fixational saccades; Free viewing; Miniature eye movements; Natural images

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIMULATION; VISION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

PUNCTUM MINUTISSIMUM;

EID: 84876013887     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222715110     Document Type: Article

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