Integration of visual and auditory space in the mammalian superior colliculus.
Recordings of eye movements and single-neurone microelectrode recordings of the superior colliculus in cats show that, for each saccadic movement, their eyes start near to the centre of the orbit so that the coordinates of visual and auditory space are aligned, and complex neural compensation of auditory or visual inputs to the superior colliculus is unnecessary.
D000818:Animals; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D002415:Cats; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology; D013477:Superior Colliculi / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*