Superior colliculus inactivation alters the relationship between covert visual attention and microsaccades

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1169-1181

  Hafed, Ziad M ^a   Lovejoy, Lee P ^b   Krauzlis, Richard J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Fixational eye movements; Muscimol; Perceptual processing; Rhesus macaque

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; MALE; MICROSACCADE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84874240343     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12127     Document Type: Article

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