Microsaccades and visual-spatial working memory

Journal of Eye Movement Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Gaunt, Joshua T ^a   Bridgeman, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Microsaccades; working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893162302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19958692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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