Influence of task predictability on the activity of neurons in the rostral superior colliculus during double-step saccades

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3199-3211

  Reyes Puerta, Vicente ^a   Philipp, Roland ^a   Lindner, Werner ^a   Lünenburger, Lars ^b   Hoffmann, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAZE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BLINKING; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 66349119638     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90983.2008     Document Type: Article

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