The Superior Colliculus

Contains important pieces of evidence regarding the structure and function of the superior colliculus. This book explores the involvement of the superior colliculus in the control of gaze shift and rapid eye movements. It provides a detailed discussion of structural features as they relate to functional properties.

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The Superior Colliculus: New Approaches for Studying Sensorimotor Integration discusses new experimental and theoretical approaches to investigating how the brain transforms sensory signals into the motor commands that are used to shift the direction of gaze. The material includes the potential models for sensorimotor integration in the primate brain, how computational models and experimental work can be integrated to test hypotheses about sensorimotor integration, models of how multiple cortical and subcortical structures interact to generate a single behavior, and a description of new methods to correlate behavior and neural function.