Further evidence that a shared efferent collicular pathway drives separate circuits for smooth eye movements and saccades

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 344-352

  Missal, M ^a,b   Coimbra, A ^a,b   Lefevre P ^a,b   Olivier, E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Smooth eye movements; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FIXATION, OCULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0036430099     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1274-7     Document Type: Article

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