Neuronal evidence for individual eye control in the primate cMRF

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue , 2008, Pages 143-150

  Waitzman, David M ^a   Van Horn, Marion R ^b   Cullen, Kathleen E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

disconjugate eye movement; disparity; mesencephalic reticular formation (MRF); oculomotor system; saccade; saccade vergence interaction; superior colliculus (SC); supraoculomotor area (SOA); vergence

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; MESENCEPHALON RETICULAR FORMATION; MONKEY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 49549098375     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)00619-5     Document Type: Chapter

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