Motor functions of the superior colliculus

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue , 2011, Pages 205-231

  Gandhi, Neeraj J ^a,b   Katnani, Husam A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixation; Gaze shift; Head; Pinnae; Reach; Saccade; Sonar; Vector averaging; Vector summation; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT; FORELIMB; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VIBRISSAE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79959879841     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-061010-113728     Document Type: Article

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