H . H . L . M . Goossens and A . J . Van Opstal Monkey Superior Colliculus Dynamic Ensemble Coding of Saccades in the

H . H . L . M . Goossens and A . J . Van Opstal Colliculus Activity Blink - Perturbed Saccades in Monkey . II . Superior

Dynamic Ensemble Coding of Saccades in the Monkey Superior Colliculus

Goossens, H.H.L.M. and A. J. Van Opstal. Dynamic ensemble coding of saccades in the monkey superior colliculus. J Neurophysiol 95: 2326–2341, 2006. First published December 21, 2005; doi:10.1152/jn.00889.2005. The deeper layers of the midbrain superior colliculus (SC) contain a topographic motor map in which a localized population of cells is recruited for each saccade, but how the brain stem d...

A . J . Van Opstal Monkey Superior Colliculus Dynamic Ensemble Coding of Saccades in the

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Dynamic ensemble coding of saccades in the monkey superior colliculus.

The deeper layers of the midbrain superior colliculus (SC) contain a topographic motor map in which a localized population of cells is recruited for each saccade, but how the brain stem decodes the dynamic SC output is unclear. Here we analyze saccade-related responses in the monkey SC to test a new dynamic ensemble-coding model, which proposes that each spike from each saccade-related SC neuro...

Optimal Control of Saccades by Spatial-Temporal Activity Patterns in the Monkey Superior Colliculus

A major challenge in computational neurobiology is to understand how populations of noisy, broadly-tuned neurons produce accurate goal-directed actions such as saccades. Saccades are high-velocity eye movements that have stereotyped, nonlinear kinematics; their duration increases with amplitude, while peak eye-velocity saturates for large saccades. Recent theories suggest that these characteris...