Goal representations dominate superior colliculus activity during extrafoveal tracking

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 38, 2008, Pages 9426-9439

  Hafed, Ziad M ^a   Krauzlis, Richard J ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral goal; Population coding; Pursuit; Stimulus response; Superior colliculus; Voluntary eye movement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RHESUS MONKEY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; MACACA MULATTA; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; RETINA; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58149352341     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1313-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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