Visual and vergence eye movement-related responses of pursuit neurons in the caudal frontal eye fields to motion-in-depth stimuli

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 92-108

  Akao, Teppei ^a   Kurkin, Sergei A ^a   Fukushima, Junko ^a   Fukushima, Kikuro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frontal eye fields; Latency; Monkey; Smooth pursuit; Vergence; Visual response

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; EYE TRACKING; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; VELOCITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FRONTAL LOBE; MACACA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 21244490030     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2213-6     Document Type: Article

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