SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE N623 - Week 6
Oculomotor and Vestibular Systems

Nobel of the Week

  • 1914 - Robert Barany, "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus"

    Introductory Readings for discussion on October 6.

  • Kandel, Schwartz, Jessell, 4th/5th edition, Chapters 39 and 40.

    Original Literature Readings for discussion on October 11.

  • Goldberg ME, Wurtz RH (1972) Activity of superior colliculus in behaving monkey. I. Visual receptive fields of single neurons. J Neurophysiol. 35(4):542-559.
  • Goldberg ME, Wurtz RH (1972) Activity of superior colliculus in behaving monkey. II. Effect of attention on neuronal responses. J Neurophysiol. 35:560-574.
  • Wurtz RH, Goldberg ME (1972) Activity of superior colliculus in behaving monkey. III. Cells discharging before eye movements. J Neurophysiol. 35:575-586.
  • Ferraina S, Pare M, Wurtz RH (2002) Comparison of Cortico-Cortical and Cortico-Collicular Signals for the Generation of Saccadic Eye Movements. J. Neurophysiol. 87: 845-858.

    Original Literature Readings for discussion on October 13.

  • Sebastian M. Frank and Mark W. Greenlee (2018) The parieto-insular vestibular cortex in humans: more than a single area? Journal of Neurophysiology 2018 120:3, 1438-1450.

     

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