The saccadic re-centering bias is associated with activity changes in the human superior colliculus

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Krebs, Ruth M ^a,b   Schoenfeld, Mircea A ^b,c,d   Boehler, Carsten N ^a,d   Song, Allen W ^a   Woldorff, Marty G ^a,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Kliniken Schmieder   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical eye fields; Eye movement; fMRI; Re centering bias; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SUPPLEMENTARY EYE FIELD; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 79953004740     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00193     Document Type: Article

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