Cues to move increase information in superior colliculus tuning curves

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 690-703

  Li, Xiaobing ^a   Basso, Michele A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Action choice; Attention; Discrimination; Fisher information; Movement preparation; Movement selection; Saccades; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TUNING CURVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MACACA MULATTA; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CUES; MACACA MULATTA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80051534485     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00154.2011     Document Type: Article

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