A vermal Purkinje cell simple spike population response encodes the changes in eye movement kinematics due to smooth pursuit adaptation

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Dash, Suryadeep ^a,b   Dicke, Peter W ^a   Thier, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE POSITION; EYE TRACKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIRING RATE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KINEMATICS; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PURKINJE CELL; PURKINJE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

EID: 84874410937     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00003     Document Type: Article

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