The role of the monkey dorsal pontine nuclei in goal-directed eye and hand movements

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 6154-6166

  Tziridis, Konstantin ^a   Dicke, Peter W ^a   Thier, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HAND MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

EID: 66049103267     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0581-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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