In multiple-step gaze shifts: Omnipause (OPNs) and collicular fixation neurons encode gaze position error; OPNs gate saccades

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1726-1742

  Bergeron, André ^a   Guitton, Daniel ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE POSITION; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0036798595     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2002.88.4.1726     Document Type: Article

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