Single-neuron activity and eye movements during human REM sleep and awake vision

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Andrillon, Thomas ^a,b,c   Nir, Yuval ^d   Cirelli, Chiara ^c   Tononi, Giulio ^c   Fried, Itzhak ^e,f  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BRAIN; EYE; HOMINID; MOVEMENT; NEUROLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SLEEP; VISION; VISUAL CUE; WAVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; OSCILLATION; PONTOGENICULOOCCIPITAL WAVE; REM SLEEP; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS; ADOLESCENT; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SLEEP, REM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939137127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8884     Document Type: Article

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