Optimal control of saccades by spatial-temporal activity patterns in the monkey superior colliculus

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Goossens, H H L M ^a   van Opstal, A J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; KINEMATICS; NEURONS;

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; GOAL-DIRECTED; HIGH VELOCITY; NONLINEAR KINEMATICS; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; PROPERTY; SIGNAL DEPENDENT NOISE; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; SPEED ACCURACY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

ACCURACY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; MACACA MULATTA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI;

EID: 84863644233     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002508     Document Type: Article

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