The human frontal oculomotor cortical areas contribute asymmetrically to motor planning in a gap saccade task.

BACKGROUND: Saccadic eye movements are used to rapidly align the fovea with the image of objects of interest in peripheral vision. We have recently shown that in children there is a high preponderance of quick latency but poorly planned saccades that consistently fall short of the target goal. The c...

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Main Authors: Paul van Donkelaar, Yu Lin, David Hewlett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2749336?pdf=render