Encoding of smooth-pursuit eye movement initiation by a population of vermal Purkinje cells

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 877-891

  Dash, Suryadeep ^a,b   Catz, Nicolas ^a,c   Dicke, Peter W ^a   Thier, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

cerebellum; eye movements; macaque; population coding; pursuit

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; KINEMATICS; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL;

EID: 84859062609     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr153     Document Type: Article

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