Going for the goal
Nature NeurosciencePublished 26 March 2003
Richard J. Krauzlis, Christopher D. Carello
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A new study shows that activity in the superior colliculus encodes the distance to the goal of the orienting movement, not the particular saccade or saccades used to get there.
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A new study shows that activity in the superior colliculus encodes the distance to the goal of the orienting movement, not the particular saccade or saccades used to get there.
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