So Much to See, So Little Time: How the Superior Colliculus (SC) Suppresses Unwanted Saccades. Focus on “Physiological Characterization of Synaptic Inputs to Inhibitory Burst Neurons From the Rostral and Caudal Superior Colliculus”

Abstract

The brain of frontal eyed animals is confronted with a plethora of visual stimuli and must make a decision to turn both eyes to view but one stimulus. Once this decision is made it must be translated into a motor command to move the eyes. The superior colliculus (SC) is one site in the brain stem