Head-free gaze shifts provide further insights into the role of the medial cerebellum in the control of primate saccadic eye movements

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2158-2173

  Fuchs, Albert F ^a   Brettler, Sandra ^a   Ling, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FASTIGIAL NUCLEUS; GAZE; GAZE SHIFT; HEAD MOVEMENT; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; CEREBELLUM; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONS; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951237104     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.91361.2008     Document Type: Article

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