Movements resembling orientation or avoidance elicited by electrical stimulation of the superior colliculus in rats
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Movements resembling orientation or avoidance elicited by electrical stimulation of the superior colliculus in rats.
Some studies have reported that stimulation of the superior colliculus in rats produces orienting responses, as it does in a number of species. However, other studies have reported movements resembling avoidance and escape, which are not characteristic of collicular stimulation in other mammals. This apparent discrepancy was investigated by systematically recording the effects on head and body ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.06-03-00723.1986