Neural mechanisms of saccade target selection: Gated accumulator model of the visual-motor cascade

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1991-2002

  Schall, Jeffrey D ^a   Purcell, Braden A ^a   Heitz, Richard P ^a   Logan, Gordon D ^a   Palmeri, Thomas J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulator models; Decision making; Frontal eye field; Saccade target selection; Visuomotor transformation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EYE TRACKING; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SACCADES; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958068186     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07715.x     Document Type: Article

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