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SUBMITTER: Herman JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7544506 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Herman James P JP Arcizet Fabrice F Krauzlis Richard J RJ
eLife 20200917
Recent work has implicated the primate basal ganglia in visual perception and attention, in addition to their traditional role in motor control. The basal ganglia, especially the caudate nucleus 'head' (CDh) of the striatum, receive indirect anatomical connections from the superior colliculus (SC), a midbrain structure that is known to play a crucial role in the control of visual attention. To test the possible functional relationship between these subcortical structures, we recorded CDh neurona ...[more]