Tonic activity during visuo-oculomotor behavior in the monkey superior colliculus

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-28

  Kojima, Jun ^a,b   Matsumura, Masaru ^a,c   Togawa, Morio ^a   Hikosaka, Okihide ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Sayama Neurology Hospital   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movement; Macaque; Memory; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; MALE; MEMORY; MONKEY; MOTOR NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 0030248036     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(96)01067-X     Document Type: Article

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