High-field FMRI reveals brain activation patterns underlying saccade execution in the human superior colliculus.

The superior colliculus (SC) has been shown to play a crucial role in the initiation and coordination of eye- and head-movements. The knowledge about the function of this structure is mainly based on single-unit recordings in animals with relatively few neuroimaging studies investigating eye-movemen...

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Main Authors: Ruth M Krebs, Marty G Woldorff, Claus Tempelmann, Nils Bodammer, Toemme Noesselt, Carsten N Boehler, Henning Scheich, Jens-Max Hopf, Emrah Duzel, Hans-Jochen Heinze, Mircea A Schoenfeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2805712?pdf=render