Vertical Purkinje cells of the monkey floccular lobe: Simple-spike activity during pursuit and passive whole body rotation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 787-803

  Fukushima, Kikuro ^a   Fukushima, Junko ^b   Kaneko, Chris R S ^b   Fuchs, Albert F ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; ROTATION; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; SPIKE; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

EID: 0032769946     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.2.787     Document Type: Article

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