Neuronal responses in macaque area PEc to saccades and eye position

Neuroscience

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 413-424

  Raffi, M ^a   Ballabeni, A ^a   Maioli, M G ^a   Squatrito, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

eye movements; eye position; monkey; parietal cortex; pause neurons; single unit recordings

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE POSITION; GAZE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MACACA; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 53249107172     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.08.018     Document Type: Article

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