Investigating the role of the superior colliculus in active vision with the visual search paradigm

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2003-2016

  Shen, Kelly ^a   Valero, Jerome ^b   Day, Gregory S ^b   Paré, Martin ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Macaca mulatta; Optic tectum; Saccade goal selection; Saccade programming; Saccade target selection; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SEARCH; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HAPLORHINI; NEURONS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958045537     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07722.x     Document Type: Article

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