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Multisensory Information Facilitates Reaction Speed by Enlarging Activity Difference between Superior Colliculus Hemispheres in Rats

Animals can make faster behavioral responses to multisensory stimuli than to unisensory stimuli. The superior colliculus (SC), which receives multiple inputs from different sensory modalities, is considered to be involved in the initiation of motor responses. However, the mechanism by which multisen...

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Autores principales: Hirokawa, Junya, Sadakane, Osamu, Sakata, Shuzo, Bosch, Miquel, Sakurai, Yoshio, Yamamori, Tetsuo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21966481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025283