High-field fMRI reveals brain activation patterns underlying saccade execution in the human superior colliculus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Krebs, Ruth M ^a,c   Woldorff, Marty G ^c,d   Tempelmann, Claus ^a   Bodammer, Nils ^a   Noesselt, Toemme ^a   Boehler, Carsten N ^b,c   Scheich, Henning ^b   Hopf, Jens Max ^a,b   Duzel, Emrah ^a   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a,b   Schoenfeld, Mircea A ^a,b,e  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Kliniken Schmieder   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PULVINAR; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77649266054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008691     Document Type: Article

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