Delay activity of saccade-related neurons in the caudal dentate nucleus of the macaque cerebellum

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2129-2144

  Ashmore, Robin C ^a   Sommer, Marc A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Macaque; Motor preparation; Recurrent loops; Timing; Vision

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; DENTATE NUCLEUS; EYE POSITION; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; HISTOLOGY; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCLERAL SEARCH COIL TECHNIQUE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 84878522445     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00906.2011     Document Type: Article

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