Microstimulation of posterior parietal cortex biases the selection of eye movement goals during search

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3021-3028

  Mirpour, Koorosh ^a   Ong, Wei Song ^a,b   Bisley, James W ^a,b,c,d  

^a Department of Neurobiology ^*  (United States)

^b Interdepartmental PhD Program for Neuroscience   (United States)

^c JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; GOALS; MACACA MULATTA; MICROELECTRODES; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REWARD; SACCADES;

EID: 78650868295     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00397.2010     Document Type: Article

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