Dissociation of eye and head components of gaze shifts by stimulation of the omnipause neuron region

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 360-373

  Gandhi, Neeraj J ^a,b,c   Sparks, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EYE HEAD COORDINATION; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; MOTOR COORDINATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; PONS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34447566920     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00252.2007     Document Type: Article

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