Spatiotemporal properties of eye position signals in the primate central thalamus

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1504-1515

  Tanaka, Masaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Efference copy; Monkey; Neural integrator; Single neurons; Thalamocortical pathways

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NERVE TRACT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REFLEX;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; EYE MOVEMENTS; MACACA; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFLEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 34547700868     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl061     Document Type: Article

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