Relationships between Pupil Diameter and Neuronal Activity in the Locus Coeruleus, Colliculi, and Cingulate Cortex

Neuron

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 221-234

  Joshi, Siddhartha ^a   Li, Yin ^a   Kalwani, Rishi M ^b   Gold, Joshua I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COLLICULUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYE FIXATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LOCUS CERULEUS; LUMINANCE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; PUPILLOMETRY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RHESUS MONKEY;

NORADRENALIN;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; LOCUS COERULEUS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PUPIL;

EID: 84953715312     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.11.028     Document Type: Article

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