Using perturbations to identify the brain circuits underlying active vision

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1677, 2015, Pages

  Wurtz, Robert H ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Brain circuits; Inactivations; Lesions; Monkeys; Optogenetics

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; EYE; LESION; LIGHT EFFECT; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIMATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL CUE;

PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; PROCEDURES; RETINA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRIMATES; RETINA; SACCADES; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84938528227     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0205     Document Type: Review

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