ReviewJournal of neurophysiology2009
Exploring the superior colliculus in vitro.
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74 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 137 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Saccadic Oscillations After Donepezil Administration in Patients with Dementia: Time Course and Clinical Correlates.Journal of eye movement research · 2026Article
- Evolutionarily old brainstem neurons are required for the control of selective spatial attention.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Neuronal Features of Visual Attention in the Mouse Superior Colliculus Depend on Learned Behavioral Relevance.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Spatial evolution in temporal dynamics of hemodynamic response function in human superior colliculi with ultra-high-resolution MRI at 9.4T.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Domain-like patterning of dendritic asymmetry and orientation defined by gap junctions in the mouse retina.iScience · 2025Article
- Eye Opening Primes Synaptic Maturation by Enhancing AMPA Receptor-Mediated Transmission and Spinogenesis in the Developing Superior Colliculus.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
- Diverse and dynamic influences of saccades on visual representations in the mouse superior colliculus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Chilean brush-tailed mouse (Journal of neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Stronger premicrosaccadic sensitivity enhancement for dark contrasts in the primate superior colliculus.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Microsaccadic suppression of peripheral perceptual detection performance as a function of foveated visual image appearance.Journal of vision · 2024Article
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- A neural mechanism for terminating decisions.Neuron · 2023Article
- Neural Circuit Mechanisms Involved in Animals' Detection of and Response to Visual Threats.Neuroscience bulletin · 2023Review
- Effects of Light Isoflurane Anesthesia on Organization of Direction and Orientation Selectivity in the Superficial Layer of the Mouse Superior Colliculus.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- The tectum/superior colliculus as the vertebrate solution for spatial sensory integration and action.Current biology : CB · 2021Review
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- Unraveling circuits of visual perception and cognition through the superior colliculus.Neuron · 2021Review
- Monosynaptic inputs to specific cell types of the intermediate and deep layers of the superior colliculus.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2020Article
- Optogenetic manipulation of a value-coding pathway from the primate caudate tail facilitates saccadic gaze shift.Nature communications · 2020Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The superior colliculus plays an important role in the translation of sensory signals that encode the location of objects in space into motor signals that encode vectors of the shifts in gaze direction called saccades. Since the late 1990s, our two laboratories have been applying whole cell patch-clamp techniques to in vitro slice preparations of rodent superior colliculus to analyze the structure and function of its circuitry at the cellular level. This review describes the results of these experiments and discusses their contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms responsible for sensorimotor integration in the superior colliculus. The experiments analyze vertical interactions between its superficial visuosensory and intermediate premotor layers and propose how they might contribute to express saccades and to saccadic suppression. They also compare and contrast the circuitry within each of these layers and propose how this circuitry might contribute to the selection of the targets for saccades and to the build-up of the premotor commands that precede saccades. Experiments also explore in vitro the roles of extrinsic inputs to the superior colliculus, including cholinergic inputs from the parabigeminal and parabrachial nuclei and GABAergic inputs from the substantia nigra pars reticulata, in modulating the activity of the collicular circuitry. The results extend and clarify our understanding of the multiple roles the superior colliculus plays in sensorimotor integration.
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