Sentences with phrase «superior colliculus»

iPSC - derived RGCs also expressed genes involved in guiding RGC axons to their specific targets, and when cultured on aggregates made from mouse midbrain, RGCs elaborated long processes that were oriented towards superior colliculus (SC) cells, the target of RGC axons in the midbrain, but not inferior colliculus (IC) cells, a target of the auditory neurons.

Here, we demonstrate how the brainstem can be linear, and how instead the midbrain superior colliculus (SC) could optimize saccadic speed - accuracy tradeoff.

By probing the animals» brains with electrodes, Wurtz and Sommer discovered that the signals from the superior colliculus to the frontal cortex passed through a portion of the thalamus.

Sommer noted that a current applied to this area, called the superior colliculus, elicited a delayed response in the frontal cortex, which is associated with attention and decision making, Wurtz recalls.

The old pathway, also called the where pathway, goes to a structure called the superior colliculus, which forms a bump on the roof of the brain stem, the stalk that emerges from below the brain and continues as the spinal cord.

Compared to hearing cats, Blake Butler and colleagues found that cats made deaf in the first weeks of life had reduced connections from the anterior ectosylvian sulcus of the sensory cortex to the superior colliculus (SC) of the midbrain.

«Reorganization of brain outputs in deaf cats: Increased connections from auditory cortex to superior colliculus may support enhanced information process after hearing loss.»

But because his where pathway (going through the superior colliculus and bypassing the damaged V1 en route to higher cortical centers) is intact, he can guide his hand unerringly toward the light spot that he can not consciously see.

A brain region called the superior colliculus turned her head and slewed her eyes so that the densest part of the retina, the fovea, formed a detailed image of the cat.

Rodger's team used genetically modified mice with abnormal connections in an area of the brain called the superior colliculus (SC), which is involved in motion detection.

Then the scientists injected muscimol into the part of the superior colliculus that received signals from the eyes about the red - ring corner.

If a monkey sees a light in the upper - left corner of its field of view, for instance, an electrode placed in the upper right of the superior colliculus map will fire.

Previous research had shown that in the superior colliculus, signals from the eyes get spread out into a two - dimensional map that is flipped left - to - right relative to the visual field.

The superior colliculus is located next to parts of the brain stem that keep the heart beating and play other life - sustaining roles.

To probe more deeply into our sense of space, Lee Lovejoy, now a researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, wanted to study the superior colliculus, a region deep in the brain stem.

A team of Czech and German scientists working on the Zambian mole - rat found that a brain structure known as the superior colliculus (SC) contains neurons that respond to magnetic stimuli.

Strokes or other injuries that wipe out the superior colliculus often wipe out those regions, too.

Experiments like Lovejoy's on the superior colliculus, together with studies of parietal lobe brain damage, show us that both of these regions contribute to our awareness of space.

But mole rats that built nests within changing magnetic fields showed strong activity in a brain region called the superior colliculus, which collects spatial cues and directs orienting behavior.

We found that the superior colliculus of the Zambian mole rat (Cryptomys anselli) contains neurons that are responsive to magnetic stimuli.

The researchers led by Dr. Ziad Hafed of the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) at the University of Tübingen investigated non-human primates, ascertaining that different parts of the visual field are represented asymmetrically in the superior colliculus, a brain structure central to visual perception and behavior.

For instance, within the superior colliculus (SC)-- a midbrain area that initiates eye movements to peripheral stimuli directly based on input from the eyes -, much more neural tissue is dedicated to processing foveal signals than to processing peripheral signals.

Here the axons going down the optic nerve, across the optic chiasm, and into the expected targets in the brain: the lateral geniculate and the superior colliculus.

Luminance threshold responses were recorded at approximately P100 from multiple points within the superior colliculus (SC) contralateral to the eye being tested.

Principal outcomes were quantified using electroretinography, visual acuity measurements and luminance threshold recordings from the superior colliculus.

To measure luminance threshold, single and multiunit activity was recorded in the superior colliculus (SC) at approximately P100 using a modification of a previously described procedure [48].

(2008) Upregulation of brain derived neurotrophic factor is related to transport loss in the superior colliculus of the DBA / 2J mouse (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 49: ARVO E-Abstract 4061).