TY - JOUR AU - Hemelt, Marie E. AU - Keller, Asaf PY - 2007 DA - 2007/01/31 TI - Superior sensation: superior colliculus participation in rat vibrissa system JO - BMC Neuroscience SP - 12 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - The superior colliculus, usually considered a visuomotor structure, is anatomically positioned to perform sensorimotor transformations in other modalities. While there is evidence for its potential participation in sensorimotor loops of the rodent vibrissa system, little is known about its functional role in vibrissa sensation or movement. In anesthetized rats, we characterized extracellularly recorded responses of collicular neurons to different types of vibrissa stimuli. SN - 1471-2202 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-8-12 DO - 10.1186/1471-2202-8-12 ID - Hemelt2007 ER -