"Superior Colliculi" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The anterior pair of the quadrigeminal bodies which coordinate the general behavioral orienting responses to visual stimuli, such as whole-body turning, and reaching.
| Descriptor ID |
D013477
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.132.659.800.816
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| Concept/Terms |
Superior Colliculi- Superior Colliculi
- Colliculi, Superior
- Colliculus, Superior
- Tectum, Optic
- Optic Tectum
- Optic Tectums
- Tectums, Optic
- Superior Colliculus
- Anterior Colliculus
- Colliculus, Anterior
- Optic Lobe, Mammalian
- Mammalian Optic Lobe
- Mammalian Optic Lobes
- Optic Lobes, Mammalian
Optic Lobe, Human- Optic Lobe, Human
- Human Optic Lobe
- Human Optic Lobes
- Optic Lobes, Human
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Superior Colliculi" by people in Profiles.
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Primate superior colliculus is causally engaged in abstract higher-order cognition. Nat Neurosci. 2024 Oct; 27(10):1999-2008.
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Transformation of Motion Pattern Selectivity from Retina to Superior Colliculus. J Neurosci. 2024 May 15; 44(20).
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Stimulus-dependent differences in cortical versus subcortical contributions to visual detection in mice. Curr Biol. 2024 05 06; 34(9):1940-1952.e5.
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Attention improves information flow between neuronal populations without changing the communication subspace. Curr Biol. 2021 12 06; 31(23):5299-5313.e4.
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Retinal origin of direction selectivity in the superior colliculus. Nat Neurosci. 2017 Apr; 20(4):550-558.
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Dendritic and axonal targeting patterns of a genetically-specified class of retinal ganglion cells that participate in image-forming circuits. Neural Dev. 2014 Feb 05; 9:2.
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Topography and physiology of ascending streams in the auditory tectothalamic pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Jan 05; 107(1):372-7.
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Genetic identification of an On-Off direction-selective retinal ganglion cell subtype reveals a layer-specific subcortical map of posterior motion. Neuron. 2009 May 14; 62(3):327-34.
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Proteomic analyses of zebra finch optic tectum and comparative histochemistry. J Proteome Res. 2007 Jun; 6(6):2341-50.
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Nucleus prepositus. Prog Brain Res. 2006; 151:205-30.