The tectum/superior colliculus as the vertebrate solution for spatial sensory integration and action

Unraveling circuits of visual perception and cognition through the superior colliculus

(2021) Michele A. Basso et al.   NEURON

Ultra High Field fMRI of Human Superior Colliculi Activity during Affective Visual Processing

(2020) Yuxi C. Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Parallel Channels for Motion Feature Extraction in the Pretectum and Tectum of Larval Zebrafish

(2020) Kun Wang et al.   Cell Reports

The influence of subcortical shortcuts on disordered sensory and cognitive processing

(2020) Jessica McFadyen et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The evolutionary origin of visual and somatosensory representation in the vertebrate pallium

(2020) Shreyas M. Suryanarayana et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Experience Creates the Multisensory Transform in the Superior Colliculus

(2020) Zhengyang Wang et al.   Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Behavioral Signatures of a Developing Neural Code

(2020) Lilach Avitan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The zebrafish visual system transmits dimming information via multiple segregated pathways

(2020) Estuardo Robles et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Anatomical and electrophysiological analysis of cholinergic inputs from the parabigeminal nucleus to the superficial superior colliculus

(2020) Kota Tokuoka et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Retinotectal circuitry of larval zebrafish is adapted to detection and pursuit of prey

(2020) Dominique Förster et al.   eLife

Dissecting the Tectal Output Channels for Orienting and Defense Responses

(2020) Kaoru Isa et al.   eNeuro

Lack of Evidence for Stereotypical Direction Columns in the Mouse Superior Colliculus

(2020) Hui Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Neural circuitry for stimulus selection in the zebrafish visual system

(2020) António M. Fernandes et al.   NEURON

Molecular classification of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells links genes to cell types to behavior

(2020) Yvonne Kölsch et al.   NEURON

A collicular visual cortex: Neocortical space for an ancient midbrain visual structure

(2019) Riccardo Beltramo et al.   SCIENCE

Dissecting the circuit for blindsight to reveal the critical role of pulvinar and superior colliculus

(2019) Masaharu Kinoshita et al.   Nature Communications

An afferent white matter pathway from the pulvinar to the amygdala facilitates fear recognition

(2019) Jessica McFadyen et al.   eLife

Selective processing of all rotational and translational optic flow directions in the zebrafish pretectum and tectum

(2019) Kun Wang et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Nucleus Isthmi Is Required to Sustain Target Pursuit during Visually Guided Prey-Catching

(2019) Pedro M. Henriques et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Cellular-Resolution Atlas of the Larval Zebrafish Brain

(2019) Michael Kunst et al.   NEURON

The role of the optic tectum for visually evoked orienting and evasive movements

(2019) Daichi G. Suzuki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetically Defined Functional Modules for Spatial Orienting in the Mouse Superior Colliculus

(2019) Laura Masullo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Zebrafish dscaml1 Deficiency Impairs Retinal Patterning and Oculomotor Function

(2019) Manxiu Ma 马漫修 et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

An interhemispheric neural circuit allowing binocular integration in the optic tectum

(2019) Christoph Gebhardt et al.   Nature Communications

Pretectal neurons control hunting behaviour

(2019) Paride Antinucci et al.   eLife

Functional architecture underlying binocular coordination of eye position and velocity in the larval zebrafish hindbrain

(2019) Christian Brysch et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Defined Cell Types in Superior Colliculus Make Distinct Contributions to Prey Capture Behavior in the Mouse

(2019) Jennifer L. Hoy et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Probabilistic Models of Larval Zebrafish Behavior Reveal Structure on Many Scales

(2019) Robert Evan Johnson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Deconstructing Hunting Behavior Reveals a Tightly Coupled Stimulus-Response Loop

(2019) Duncan S. Mearns et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Gaze direction as equilibrium: more evidence from spatial and temporal aspects of small-saccade triggering in the rhesus macaque monkey

(2019) Ziad M. Hafed et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Internal state dynamics shape brainwide activity and foraging behaviour

(2019) João C. Marques et al.   NATURE

Prefrontal Corticotectal Neurons Enhance Visual Processing through the Superior Colliculus and Pulvinar Thalamus

(2019) Fei Hu et al.   NEURON

Structure of the Zebrafish Locomotor Repertoire Revealed with Unsupervised Behavioral Clustering

(2018) João C. Marques et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Three-Dimensional Representation of Motor Space in the Mouse Superior Colliculus

(2018) Jonathan J. Wilson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Stress Accelerates Defensive Responses to Looming in Mice and Involves a Locus Coeruleus-Superior Colliculus Projection

(2018) Lei Li et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Integrative whole-brain neuroscience in larval zebrafish

(2018) Gilles C .Vanwalleghem et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Robust Visual Responses and Normal Retinotopy in Primate Lateral Geniculate Nucleus following Long-term Lesions of Striate Cortex

(2018) Hsin-Hao Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A Role for the Superior Colliculus in Decision Criteria

(2018) Trinity B. Crapse et al.   NEURON

Luminance Changes Drive Directional Startle through a Thalamic Pathway

(2018) Lucy A.L. Heap et al.   NEURON

Divergent midbrain circuits orchestrate escape and freezing responses to looming stimuli in mice

(2018) Congping Shang et al.   Nature Communications

Spatial frequency sensitivity in macaque midbrain

(2018) Chih-Yang Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Hypothalamic Projections to the Optic Tectum in Larval Zebrafish

(2018) Lucy A. Heap et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Brain Stem Neural Circuits of Horizontal and Vertical Saccade Systems and their Frame of Reference

(2018) Mayu Takahashi et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Neural Circuits That Mediate Selective Attention: A Comparative Perspective

(2018) Eric I. Knudsen   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Orientation and Contrast Tuning Properties and Temporal Flicker Fusion Characteristics of Primate Superior Colliculus Neurons

(2018) Chih-Yang Chen et al.   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Blindsight relies on a functional connection between hMT+ and the lateral geniculate nucleus, not the pulvinar

(2018) Sara Ajina et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Topography of a Visuomotor Transformation

(2018) Thomas O. Helmbrecht et al.   NEURON

A circuit for saccadic suppression in the primate brain

(2017) Rebecca A. Berman et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Direct Dopaminergic Projections from the SNc Modulate Visuomotor Transformation in the Lamprey Tectum

(2017) Juan Pérez-Fernández et al.   NEURON

A retinoraphe projection regulates serotonergic activity and looming-evoked defensive behaviour

(2017) Lu Huang et al.   Nature Communications

Activation of the hypothalamic feeding centre upon visual prey detection

(2017) Akira Muto et al.   Nature Communications

Superior colliculus neurons encode a visual saliency map during free viewing of natural dynamic video

(2017) Brian J. White et al.   Nature Communications

Diverse Central Projection Patterns of Retinal Ganglion Cells

(2017) Emily M. Martersteck et al.   Cell Reports

Emergence of visually-evoked reward expectation signals in dopamine neurons via the superior colliculus in V1 lesioned monkeys

(2017) Norihiro Takakuwa et al.   eLife

The superior colliculus is sensitive to gestalt-like stimulus configuration in hemispherectomy patients

(2016) Loraine Georgy et al.   CORTEX

The Basal Ganglia Over 500 Million Years

(2016) Sten Grillner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sharper, Stronger, Faster Upper Visual Field Representation in Primate Superior Colliculus

(2016) Ziad M. Hafed et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Imaging population dynamics of surround suppression in the superior colliculus

(2016) Masatoshi Kasai et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The pretectal connectome in lamprey

(2016) Lorenza Capantini et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Active Dendritic Properties and Local Inhibitory Input Enable Selectivity for Object Motion in Mouse Superior Colliculus Neurons

(2016) S. D. Gale et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The functional diversity of retinal ganglion cells in the mouse

(2016) Tom Baden et al.   NATURE

Visual Cue-Discriminative Dopaminergic Control of Visuomotor Transformation and Behavior Selection

(2016) Yuanyuan Yao et al.   NEURON

Feeding State Modulates Behavioral Choice and Processing of Prey Stimuli in the Zebrafish Tectum

(2016) Alessandro Filosa et al.   NEURON

Neural Circuits Underlying Visually Evoked Escapes in Larval Zebrafish

(2016) Timothy W. Dunn et al.   NEURON

Spatiotemporal interplay between multisensory excitation and recruited inhibition in the lamprey optic tectum

(2016) Andreas A Kardamakis et al.   eLife

Population Coding of Facial Information in the Monkey Superior Colliculus and Pulvinar

(2016) Minh N. Nguyen et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Sensorimotor Decision Making in the Zebrafish Tectum

(2015) Alison J. Barker et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Visuomotor Transformations Underlying Hunting Behavior in Zebrafish

(2015) Isaac H. Bianco et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Lamprey Pallium Provides a Blueprint of the Mammalian Motor Projections from Cortex

(2015) Francisco M. Ocaña et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Visual Pathway for Looming-Evoked Escape in Larval Zebrafish

(2015) Incinur Temizer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Topographic wiring of the retinotectal connection in zebrafish

(2015) Elizabeth M. Kita et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Direct projections from the dorsal premotor cortex to the superior colliculus in the macaque (macaca mulatta)

(2015) Claudia Distler et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Optogenetic cholinergic modulation of the mouse superior colliculus in vivo

(2015) Elizabeth A. Stubblefield et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Spontaneous Neuronal Network Dynamics Reveal Circuit’s Functional Adaptations for Behavior

(2015) Sebastián A. Romano et al.   NEURON

The Distinct Role of the Amygdala, Superior Colliculus and Pulvinar in Processing of Central and Peripheral Snakes

(2015) Inês Almeida et al.   PLoS One

Tectal microcircuit generating visual selection commands on gaze-controlling neurons

(2015) Andreas A. Kardamakis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A parvalbumin-positive excitatory visual pathway to trigger fear responses in mice

(2015) C. Shang et al.   SCIENCE

Preference for concentric orientations in the mouse superior colliculus

(2015) Mehran Ahmadlou et al.   Nature Communications

Processing of visually evoked innate fear by a non-canonical thalamic pathway

(2015) Pengfei Wei et al.   Nature Communications

Signal detection analysis of blindsight in monkeys

(2015) Masatoshi Yoshida et al.   Scientific Reports

Human blindsight is mediated by an intact geniculo-extrastriate pathway

(2015) Sara Ajina et al.   eLife

The Retinal Projectome Reveals Brain-Area-Specific Visual Representations Generated by Ganglion Cell Diversity

(2014) Estuardo Robles et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Classification of Object Size in Retinotectal Microcircuits

(2014) Stephanie J. Preuss et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Distinct local circuit properties of the superficial and intermediate layers of the rodent superior colliculus

(2014) Penphimon Phongphanphanee et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

T-box Transcription Regulator Tbr2 Is Essential for the Formation and Maintenance of Opn4/Melanopsin-Expressing Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells

(2014) C.-A. Mao et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Excitatory Synaptic Feedback from the Motor Layer to the Sensory Layers of the Superior Colliculus

(2014) N. Ghitani et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Tbr2 Is Required to Generate a Neural Circuit Mediating the Pupillary Light Reflex

(2014) N. T. Sweeney et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Distinct Representation and Distribution of Visual Information by Specific Cell Types in Mouse Superficial Superior Colliculus

(2014) S. D. Gale et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Whole-genome duplication in teleost fishes and its evolutionary consequences

(2014) Stella M. K. Glasauer et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

Orientation columns in the mouse superior colliculus

(2014) Evan H. Feinberg et al.   NATURE

Visual Cortex Modulates the Magnitude but Not the Selectivity of Looming-Evoked Responses in the Superior Colliculus of Awake Mice

(2014) Xinyu Zhao et al.   NEURON

Descending Control of Swim Posture by a Midbrain Nucleus in Zebrafish

(2014) Tod R. Thiele et al.   NEURON

Neural Control and Modulation of Swimming Speed in the Larval Zebrafish

(2014) Kristen E. Severi et al.   NEURON

A Cortical Rein on the Tectum’s Gain

(2014) Sylvia Schröder et al.   NEURON

A dedicated visual pathway for prey detection in larval zebrafish

(2014) Julia L Semmelhack et al.   eLife

Rapid Innate Defensive Responses of Mice to Looming Visual Stimuli

(2013) Melis Yilmaz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Retinal ganglion cell maps in the brain: implications for visual processing

(2013) Onkar S Dhande et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Emergent Properties of the Optic Tectum Revealed by Population Analysis of Direction and Orientation Selectivity

(2013) P. R. Hunter et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Cerebellar Output in Zebrafish: An Analysis of Spatial Patterns and Topography in Eurydendroid Cell Projections

(2013) Lucy A. Heap et al.   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Control of a specific motor program by a small brain area in zebrafish

(2013) Otto Fajardo et al.   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Evolution of the basal ganglia: Dual-output pathways conserved throughout vertebrate phylogeny

(2012) Marcus Stephenson-Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Attention deficits without cortical neuronal deficits

(2012) Alexandre Zénon et al.   NATURE

Parametric Functional Maps of Visual Inputs to the Tectum

(2012) Nikolas Nikolaou et al.   NEURON

Layer-Specific Targeting of Direction-Selective Neurons in the Zebrafish Optic Tectum

(2012) Jens P. Gabriel et al.   NEURON

Fin-Tail Coordination during Escape and Predatory Behavior in Larval Zebrafish

(2012) Phil McClenahan et al.   PLoS One

Segregated Anatomical Input to Sub-Regions of the Rodent Superior Colliculus Associated with Approach and Defense

(2012) Eliane Comoli et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Evolutionary Conservation of the Basal Ganglia as a Common Vertebrate Mechanism for Action Selection

(2011) Marcus Stephenson-Jones et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Contribution of the retino-tectal pathway to visually guided saccades after lesion of the primary visual cortex in monkeys

(2011) Rikako Kato et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Separate Visual Signals for Saccade Initiation during Target Selection in the Primate Superior Colliculus

(2011) B. J. White et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A Circuit Model for Saccadic Suppression in the Superior Colliculus

(2011) P. Phongphanphanee et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Neural Substrate of Spatial Memory in the Superior Colliculus after Damage to the Primary Visual Cortex

(2011) K. Takaura et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Characterization of Genetically Targeted Neuron Types in the Zebrafish Optic Tectum

(2011) Estuardo Robles et al.   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Visual Receptive Field Properties of Neurons in the Superficial Superior Colliculus of the Mouse

(2010) L. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Blindsight depends on the lateral geniculate nucleus

(2010) Michael C. Schmid et al.   NATURE

Filtering of Visual Information in the Tectum by an Identified Neural Circuit

(2010) Filippo Del Bene et al.   SCIENCE

Tectonigral projections in the primate: a pathway for pre-attentive sensory input to midbrain dopaminergic neurons

(2009) Paul J. May et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Selective projection patterns from subtypes of retinal ganglion cells to tectum and pretectum: Distribution and relation to behavior

(2009) Marcus Robert Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Exploring the Superior Colliculus In Vitro

(2009) Tadashi Isa et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Inactivation of primate superior colliculus impairs covert selection of signals for perceptual judgments

(2009) Lee P Lovejoy et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Distinct Roles of Transcription Factors Brn3a and Brn3b in Controlling the Development, Morphology, and Function of Retinal Ganglion Cells

(2009) Tudor C. Badea et al.   NEURON

A Neural Mechanism for Microsaccade Generation in the Primate Superior Colliculus

(2009) Z. M. Hafed et al.   SCIENCE

The cellular architecture of the larval zebrafish tectum, as revealed by Gal4 enhancer trap lines

(2009) Ethan K. Scott   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Visual, lateral line, and auditory ascending pathways to the dorsal telencephalic area through the rostrolateral region of the lateral preglomerular nucleus in cyprinids

(2008) Naoyuki Yamamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Tracer coupling patterns of the ganglion cell subtypes in the mouse retina

(2008) Béla Völgyi et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Nigral Inhibition of GABAergic Neurons in Mouse Superior Colliculus

(2008) K. Kaneda et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Control of visually guided behavior by distinct populations of spinal projection neurons

(2008) Michael B Orger et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Multisensory integration: current issues from the perspective of the single neuron

(2008) Barry E. Stein et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE