Discharge dynamics of oculomotor neural integrator neurons during conjugate and disjunctive saccades and fixation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 739-754

  Sylvestre, Pierre A ^a   Choi, Julia T L ^a   Cullen, Kathleen E ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b McIntyre Medical Research Bldg ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONJUGATE SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; DISJUNCTIVE SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; DYNAMICS; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE POSITION; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPIKE; VELOCITY; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; SACCADES; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 0042316823     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00123.2003     Document Type: Article

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