superior colliculus

The superior colliculus controls the movement and orientation of the eye.

The superior colliculus is involved in preliminary visual processing and control of eye movements.

There are also very sparse innervations from the superior colliculus.

Recent evidence suggests that the superior colliculus also responds during smooth pursuit eye movement.

They are respectively named the inferior and superior colliculus.

This is possibly so with the superior colliculus.

Damage to a visual area in the brainstem, the superior colliculus, had the reverse effect.

The oculomotor nucleus originates at the level of the superior colliculus.

It receives in addition axons from the superior colliculus.

Previous evidence has shown that the superior colliculus is associated with eye movements, or overt attention shifts.

One is the superior colliculus, from the nigra lateralis.

Their brains are highly specialized for this process, and some of these specializations appear in the superior colliculus.

The ventral-most pair appears closely tied to the function of the superior colliculus.

The superior colliculus is part of the midbrain.

La Berge provides a model that describes the complex interaction between the superior colliculus and other brain areas.

Broadly, a functional pattern can be discern which describes a number of layers within the superior colliculus.

In cats, superior colliculus stimulation also produces saccades, but the effect is not all-or-none.

The superior colliculus also receives auditory information from the inferior colliculus.

The superior colliculus and prefrontal cortex also have a major role in awareness of a visual stimulus.

Others send axons to the superior colliculus.

"In every mammalian brain, there's a special portion of neural tissue called the superior colliculus.

But its main difference with the pars reticulata is that it sends axons to the superior colliculus.

The superior colliculus is involved in all of these, but its role in saccades has been studied most intensively.

"Single-unit recording and stimulation in superior colliculus of the alert rhesus monkey."

The microstructure of the optic tectum / superior colliculus varies across species.