Composition and topographic organization of signals sent from the frontal eye field to the superior colliculus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1979-2001

  Sommer, Marc A ^a,b   Wurtz, Robert H ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; MACACA; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034128696     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.83.4.1979     Document Type: Article

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