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SUBMITTER: Ostendorf F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2824294 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ostendorf Florian F Liebermann Daniela D Ploner Christoph J CJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20091228 3
We continuously move our eyes when we inspect a visual scene. Although this leads to a rapid succession of discontinuous and fragmented retinal snapshots, we perceive the world as stable and coherent. Neural mechanisms underlying visual stability may depend on internal monitoring of planned or ongoing eye movements. In the macaque brain, a pathway for the transmission of such signals has been identified that is relayed by central thalamic nuclei. Here, we studied a possible role of this pathway ...[more]