Simple-spike activity of floccular Purkinje cells responding to sinusoidal vertical rotation and optokinetic stimuli in alert cats

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 275-289

  Fukushima, Kikuro ^a   Chin, Shinki ^a   Fukushima, Junko ^a,b   Tanaka, Masaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cat; Cerebellar flocculus; Optokinetic eye movement; Purkinje cells; Vertical eye velocity; Vertical semicircular canal; Vestibule ocular reflex

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CEREBELLUM FLOCCULUS; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SPIKE WAVE; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

EID: 0029915890     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-0102(95)01002-5     Document Type: Article

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