Neurons in the cat pretectum that project to the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus are activated during saccades

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2907-2918

  Schmidt, Matthias ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

EID: 0029910175     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.76.5.2907     Document Type: Article

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