The nucleus prepositus predominantly outputs eye movement-related information during passive and active self-motion

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1900-1911

  Dale, Alexis ^a   Cullen, Kathleen E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active motion; Heading; Prepositus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; MOTONEURON; NERVE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PREPOSITUS; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; VELOCITY;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR NEURONS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 84878525334     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00788.2012     Document Type: Article

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