Temporal characteristics of neurons in the central mesencephalic reticular formation of head unrestrained monkeys

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 471-492

  Pathmanathan, Jay S ^a   Cromer, Jason A ^a   Cullen, Kathleen E ^b   Waitzman, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; MESENCEPHALON RETICULAR FORMATION; MONKEY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VELOCITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NECK MUSCLES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RETICULAR FORMATION; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 30644465438     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0105-z     Document Type: Article

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