The effects of fixation target size and luminance on microsaccades and square-wave jerks

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Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  McCamy, Michael B ^a   Jazi, Ali Najafian ^a   Otero Millan, Jorge ^a,b   Macknik, Stephen L ^a   Martinez Conde, Susana ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fixation control; Fixation error; Saccadic intrusions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; EYE TRACKING; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREVALENCE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84876016471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9     Document Type: Article

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