Amplitude and direction of saccadic eye movements depend on the synchronicity of collicular population activity

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 424-432

  Brecht, Michael ^b   Singer, Wolf ^a   Engel, Andreas K ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CAT; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPIKE; STIMULUS ONSET ASYNCHRONY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 3042643074     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00639.2003     Document Type: Article

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