Dynamic coding of vertical facilitated vergence by premotor saccadic burst neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1967-1982

  Van Horn, Marion R ^a   Cullen, Kathleen E ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b McIntyre Medical Research Building ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULAR FORMATION; RHESUS MONKEY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR;

EID: 57349194559     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90580.2008     Document Type: Article

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