Visual cortex modulates the magnitude but not the selectivity of looming-evoked responses in the superior colliculus of awake mice

Neuron

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 202-213

  Zhao, Xinyu ^a   Liu, Mingna ^a   Cang, Jianhua ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RESPONSE MAGNITUDE; RESPONSE SELECTIVITY; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84907978257     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.08.037     Document Type: Article

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