Corticostriatal and corticotectal neurons in area 6 of the cat during fixation and eye movements

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 141-151

  Weyand, Theodore G ^a   Gafka, Adele C ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidromic; Cognition; Fixation; Saccades; Visuomotor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAT; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE FIXATION; FRONTAL LOBE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION;

ANIMALS; CATS; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIXATION, OCULAR; FRONTAL LOBE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION;

EID: 0031608206     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095252389815109X     Document Type: Article

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