Tectonigral projections in the primate: A pathway for pre-attentive sensory input to midbrain dopaminergic neurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 575-587

  May, Paul J ^a   McHaffie, John G ^b   Stanford, Terrence R ^b   Jiang, Huai ^b   Costello, M Gabriela ^b   Coizet, Veronique ^c   Hayes, Lauren M ^c   Haber, Suzanne N ^d   Redgrave, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Dopamine; Oculomotor; Reward; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

TRACER; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANATOMY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ERROR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INJECTION; LEARNING; MALE; MAMMAL; MESENCEPHALON; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSE; TECTUM; THEORY;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DOPAMINE; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PRIMATES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 59149092396     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06596.x     Document Type: Article

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