Population coding strategies and involvement of the superior colliculus in the tactile orienting behavior of naked mole-rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1461-1466

  Crish, S D ^a   Dengler Crish, C M ^a   Comer, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

blind; orienting; saccade; sensorimotor integration; somatosensory; tectum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MESENCEPHALON; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH; VERTEBRATE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MOLE RATS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33646156611     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.11.073     Document Type: Article

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