The orientating reflex: The "targeting reaction" and "searchlight of attention"

Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 347-362

  Sokolov, E N ^a   Nezlina, N I ^a   Polyanskii, V B ^a   Evtikhin, D V ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EXCITATION AND STIMULATION; GAMMA RHYTHM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MOTOR NERVE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ORIENTATING REFLEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; REFLEX; RETINA FOVEA; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENTS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; REFLEX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036658112     PISSN: 00970549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015820025297     Document Type: Review

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