The directional effects of passive eye movement on the directional visual responses of single units in the pigeon optic tectum

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 510-518

  Knox, Paul C ^a,b   Whalley, H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extraocular muscle afferents; Optic tectum; Pigeon; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; DECEREBRATE STATE; EYE MOVEMENTS; NEURONS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0030865216     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005779     Document Type: Article

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