Stimulus-driven saccades are characterized by an invariant undershooting bias: No evidence for a range effect

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 165-174

  Gillen, Caitlin ^a   Weiler, Jeffrey ^a   Heath, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action; Endpoints; Oculomotor; Saccades; Undershooting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL STRATEGY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SACCADES; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887466982     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3640-z     Document Type: Article

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