EFFECTS OF FRONTAL EYE FIELD AND SUPERIOR COLLICULUS ABLATIONS ON EYE-MOVEMENTS

被引:108
作者
SCHILLER, PH
TRUE, SD
CONWAY, JL
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[1] Department of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
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10.1126/science.115091
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Two parallel neural pathways are primarily responsible for the control of saccadic eye movements - one mediated through the frontal eye fields and the other through the superior colliculus. When both pathways are disrupted, control of saccadic eye movements is lost. Disruption of either pathway alone produces only subtle deficits. Copyright © 1979 AAAS.
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