The parietal cortex and saccade planning: Lessons from human lesion studies

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Ptak, Radek ^a,b   Müri, René M ^c  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

B lint's syndrome; Eye movements; Intraparietal sulcus; Parietal lobe; Saccade planning; Simultanagnosia; Spatial neglect; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; APRAXIA; ATTENTION; BALINT SYNDROME; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARIETAL EYE FIELD; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PREMOTOR CORTEX; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIMULTANAGNOSIA; SPATIAL NEGLECT;

EID: 84933677456     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00254     Document Type: Review

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