Eye-pursuit and reafferent head movement signals carried by pursuit neurons in the caudal part of the frontal eye fields during head-free pursuit

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 263-275

  Fukushima, Kikuro ^a   Kasahara, Satoshi ^a   Akao, Teppei ^a   Kurkin, Sergei ^a   Fukushima, Junko ^a   Peterson, Barry W ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frontal eye fields; Gaze; Head free pursuit; Reafferent; Smooth pursuit; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEAD MOVEMENT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REWARD; SACCADES; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 58449089252     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn079     Document Type: Article

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