Multisensory information facilitates reaction speed by enlarging activity difference between superior colliculus hemispheres in rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Hirokawa, Junya ^a,b   Sadakane, Osamu ^a   Sakata, Shuzo ^c,d   Bosch, Miquel ^a,e   Sakurai, Yoshio ^f,g   Yamamori, Tetsuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL MOTION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SENSATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SENSATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI;

EID: 80053146040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025283     Document Type: Article

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