The collicular code of saccade direction depends on the roll orientation of the head relative to gravity

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 283-290

  Frens, M A ^a,d   Suzuki, Y ^a,b   Scherberger, H ^a   Hepp, K ^c   Henn, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gravity; Monkey; Reference frames; Saccades; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GRAVITY; HEAD TILTING; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; ROTATION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GRAVITATION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; ORIENTATION; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0031898079     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050402     Document Type: Article

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