Saccades and multisaccadic gaze shifts are gated by different pontine omnipause neurons in head-fixed cats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 287-301

  Petit, Julien ^a   Klam, François ^a   Grantyn, Alexej ^a   Berthoz, Alain ^a  

^a l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Cat; Gaze shift; Moving target; Omnipause neurons; OPN; Perisaccadic drifts; Saccade; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; GAZE; HEAD POSITION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HEAD; LINEAR MODELS; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PONS; POSTURE; SACCADES; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0033043163     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050685     Document Type: Article

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