Saccade generation by the frontal eye fields in Rhesus monkeys is separable from visual detection and bottom-up attention shift

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Kyoung Min ^a,b   Ahn, Kyung Ha ^a   Keller, Edward L ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BOTTOM UP ATTENTION SHIFT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; MACACA MULATTA; NONHUMAN; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; PAIN; SACCADES; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 84863002056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039886     Document Type: Article

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