ReviewJournal of neurophysiology2015
An integrative role for the superior colliculus in selecting targets for movements.
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- Correlates of head-fixed directional forelimb movements in mouse superior colliculus and substantia nigra pars reticulata.Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Neural dynamics in superior colliculus of freely moving mice.Cell reports · 2025Article
- A collicular map for touch-guided tongue control.Nature · 2025Article
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- Motor context modulates substantia nigra pars reticulata spike activity in patients with Parkinson's disease.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 2022Article
- Functional coupling between target selection and acquisition in the superior colliculus.Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Article
- Association Cortex Is Essential to Reverse Hemianopia by Multisensory Training.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2021Article
- Collicular circuits for flexible sensorimotor routing.Nature neuroscience · 2021Article
- Organization of the inputs and outputs of the mouse superior colliculus.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Inhibitory neurons in the superior colliculus mediate selection of spatially-directed movements.Communications biology · 2021Article
- A cortico-collicular pathway for motor planning in a memory-dependent perceptual decision task.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Distinct prefrontal top-down circuits differentially modulate sensorimotor behavior.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Spatiotemporal Contrast Sensitivity of Brown-Norway Rats under Scotopic and Photopic Illumination.Neuroscience · 2020Article
- Monosynaptic inputs to specific cell types of the intermediate and deep layers of the superior colliculus.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2020Article
- Spatial representations in the superior colliculus are modulated by competition among targets.Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Visual Neurons in the Superior Colliculus Discriminate Many Objects by Their Historical Values.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Article
- Autism Pathogenesis: The Superior Colliculus.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Article
- A Descending Circuit Derived From the Superior Colliculus Modulates Vibrissal Movements.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2018Article
- Circuits for Action and Cognition: A View from the Superior Colliculus.Annual review of vision science · 2017Review
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Abstract
A fundamental goal of systems neuroscience is to understand the neural mechanisms underlying decision making. The midbrain superior colliculus (SC) is known to be central to the selection of one among many potential spatial targets for movements, which represents an important form of decision making that is tractable to rigorous experimental investigation. In this review, we first discuss data from mammalian models-including primates, cats, and rodents-that inform our understanding of how neural activity in the SC underlies the selection of targets for movements. We then examine the anatomy and physiology of inputs to the SC from three key regions that are themselves implicated in motor decisions-the basal ganglia, parabrachial region, and neocortex-and discuss how they may influence SC activity related to target selection. Finally, we discuss the potential for methodological advances to further our understanding of the neural bases of target selection. Our overarching goal is to synthesize what is known about how the SC and its inputs act together to mediate the selection of targets for movements, to highlight open questions about this process, and to spur future studies addressing these questions.
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