Contribution of the retino-tectal pathway to visually guided saccades after lesion of the primary visual cortex in monkeys

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1952-1960

  Kato, Rikako ^a,b   Takaura, Kana ^a,c,d   Ikeda, Takuro ^a,b,e   Yoshida, Masatoshi ^a,c   Isa, Tadashi ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blindsight; Muscimol; Spontaneous saccade; Superior colliculus; Visually guided saccade

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE INJURY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INJECTION SITE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION; VISION TEST; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GABA AGONISTS; MACACA; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCIMOL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958074580     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07729.x     Document Type: Article

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