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Title:	LabVIEW-controlled stimulus presentation on a monitor for smooth pursuit eye movement experiments
Author:	Chua, Florence Bautista
View Online:	njit-etd2003-039 (xvi, 94 pages ~ 11.4 MB pdf)
Department:	Biomedical Engineering Committee
Degree:	Master of Science
Program:	Biomedical Engineering
Document Type:	Thesis
Advisory Committee:	Alvarez, Tara L. (Committee chair) Reisman, Stanley S. (Committee member) Bergen, Michael T. (Committee member) Servatius, Richard J. (Committee member)
Date:	2003-05
Keywords:	Involuntary oculomotor movement
Availability:	Unrestricted
Abstract:	Smooth pursuit is an example of how movements in the visual world guide involuntary oculomotor movements. A current system to study eye movements uses an oscilloscope screen. A computer screen offers many advantages: a greater visual field, the use of shapes, 32 bits of colors, and increased timing accuracy. To control stimulus display on a computer monitor, instrumentation was developed in LabVIEW. Initial studies supported a draw/redraw to erase method for stimulus presentation. An experiment compared the computer monitor to the oscilloscope. Indeed, the monitor display was an improvement over the oscilloscope for vision research.