Firing patterns in superior colliculus of head-unrestrained monkey during normal and perturbed gaze saccades reveal short-latency feedback and a sluggish rostral shift in activity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 7166-7180

  Woo, Young Choi ^a   Guitton, Daniel ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GAZE; HEAD; IMMOBILIZATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEEDBACK; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 66749162587     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5038-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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