Saccade-Related Neurons in the Primate Fastigial Nucleus: What Do They Encode?

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 3137-3154

  Kleine, J F ^a,b   Guan, Y ^a   Buttner U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSMETRIA; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; FASTIGIAL NUCLEUS; KINEMATICS; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES;

EID: 0242509042     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00021.2003     Document Type: Article

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