A direct projection from superior colliculus to substantia nigra for detecting salient visual events

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 974-980

  Comoli, Eliane ^a   Coizet, Véronique ^a   Boyes, Justin ^b   Bolam, J Paul ^b   Canteras, Newton S ^c   Quirk, Rachet H ^a   Overton, Paul G ^a   Redgrave, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY SYSTEM; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0042861370     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1113     Document Type: Article

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