Influence of the superior colliculus on the primate blink reflex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 389-398

  Gnadt, James W ^a   Lu, Shao Ming ^a   Breznen, Boris ^a,b   Basso, Michele A ^a,c   Henriquez, Victor M ^a   Evinger, Craig ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Monkey; Omnipause; OPN; Saccade; Trigeminal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYELID REFLEX; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ANIMALS; BLINKING; BRAIN MAPPING; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MICROELECTRODES; REACTION TIME; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0030880720     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005767     Document Type: Article

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