Gaze pursuit responses in nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis of head-unrestrained macaques

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 460-473

  Suzuki, David A ^a   Betelak, Kathleen F ^a   Yee, Robert D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIRECTIONAL VISION; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; MACACA; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR NEURONS; PONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PURKINJE CELLS; PURSUIT, SMOOTH;

EID: 58849163260     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00615.2007     Document Type: Article

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