Stimulus-driven competition in a cholinergic midbrain nucleus

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 889-895

  Asadollahi, Ali ^a   Mysore, Shreesh P ^a   Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC MIDBRAIN NUCLEUS; GAZE; ISTHMI PARS PARVOCELLULARIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; NEURAL INHIBITION; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STRIGIFORMES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77954145749     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2573     Document Type: Article

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