Drivers from the deep: The contribution of collicular input to thalamocortical processing

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 149, Issue , 2005, Pages 207-225

  Wurtz, Robert H ^a   Sommer, Marc A ^a   Cavanaugh, James ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; INFORMATION; INTERNEURON; MESENCEPHALON; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; THALAMUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 26844534618     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(05)49015-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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