Gaze and smooth pursuit signals interact in parietal area 7m of the behaving monkey

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-46

  Raffi, Milena ^a   Squatrito, Salvatore ^a   Maioli, Maria Grazia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Macaque; Oculomotor system; Parietal cortex; Single unit recordings

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; MONKEY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 34548206314     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0967-3     Document Type: Article

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