Violating the main sequence: Asymmetries in saccadic peak velocities for saccades into the temporal versus nasal hemifields

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-110

  Jóhannesson, Ómar I ^a   Kristjánsson, Árni ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Main sequence; Naso temporal asymmetry; Peak velocity; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; NASAL TEMPORAL ASYMMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VELOCITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877575255     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3490-8     Document Type: Article

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