Spatial characteristics of neurons in the central mesencephalic reticular formation (cMRF) of head-unrestrained monkeys

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 455-470

  Pathmanathan, Jay S ^a   Presnell, Rachel ^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

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; MEASUREMENT; MESENCEPHALON RETICULAR FORMATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPINAL CORD; THALAMUS; VELOCITY;

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

EID: 30644477465     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0104-0     Document Type: Article

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