E J Tehovnik

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Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Behavioural conditions affecting saccadic eye movements elicited electrically from the frontal lobes of primates
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E25 634, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Eur J Neurosci 11:2431-43. 1999
  2. ncbi Effects of training on saccadic eye movements elicited electrically from the frontal cortex of monkeys
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E25 634, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Brain Res 877:101-6. 2000
  3. ncbi Electrically evoked saccades from the dorsomedial frontal cortex and frontal eye fields: a parametric evaluation reveals differences between areas
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
    Exp Brain Res 117:369-78. 1997
  4. ncbi Saccades induced electrically from the dorsomedial frontal cortex: evidence for a head-centered representation
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E25 634, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Brain Res 795:287-91. 1998
  5. ncbi Eye fields in the frontal lobes of primates
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E25 634, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Brain Res Brain Res Rev 32:413-48. 2000
  6. ncbi Reversible inactivation of macaque frontal eye field
    M A Sommer
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
    Exp Brain Res 116:229-49. 1997
  7. ncbi Reversible inactivation of macaque dorsomedial frontal cortex: effects on saccades and fixations
    M A Sommer
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
    Exp Brain Res 124:429-46. 1999
  8. ncbi Eye movements modulate visual receptive fields of V4 neurons
    A S Tolias
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building E25, Room 634, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Neuron 29:757-67. 2001
  9. ncbi Compensatory saccades made to remembered targets following orbital displacement by electrically stimulating the dorsomedial frontal cortex or frontal eye fields of primates
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
    Brain Res 727:221-4. 1996
  10. ncbi Effective spread and timecourse of neural inactivation caused by lidocaine injection in monkey cerebral cortex
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
    J Neurosci Methods 74:17-26. 1997

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Publications14

  1. ncbi Behavioural conditions affecting saccadic eye movements elicited electrically from the frontal lobes of primates
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E25 634, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Eur J Neurosci 11:2431-43. 1999
    ..These results suggest that the FEF are more closely connected with the saccade generator for the execution of saccadic eye movements than is the DMFC, even though both regions have direct projections to brainstem oculomotor centres...
  2. ncbi Effects of training on saccadic eye movements elicited electrically from the frontal cortex of monkeys
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E25 634, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Brain Res 877:101-6. 2000
    ..Differences between the current results and previous results have disclosed new clues as to how the DMFC might be modulated by learning...
  3. ncbi Electrically evoked saccades from the dorsomedial frontal cortex and frontal eye fields: a parametric evaluation reveals differences between areas
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
    Exp Brain Res 117:369-78. 1997
    ..Although the excitability of neurons in the DMFC and FEF are similar (due to similar chronaxies), we suggest that the density of saccade-relevant neurons is higher in the FEF than in the DMFC...
  4. ncbi Saccades induced electrically from the dorsomedial frontal cortex: evidence for a head-centered representation
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E25 634, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Brain Res 795:287-91. 1998
    ..The amplitude and direction of saccadic eye movements remained invariant to such manipulations. These findings confirm the claim that the DMFC encodes saccadic eye movements in head-centered coordinates...
  5. ncbi Eye fields in the frontal lobes of primates
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E25 634, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Brain Res Brain Res Rev 32:413-48. 2000
    ..Accordingly, the DMFC is more involved in learning operations whereas the FEF is more specialized for the execution of saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements...
  6. ncbi Reversible inactivation of macaque frontal eye field
    M A Sommer
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
    Exp Brain Res 116:229-49. 1997
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  7. ncbi Reversible inactivation of macaque dorsomedial frontal cortex: effects on saccades and fixations
    M A Sommer
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
    Exp Brain Res 124:429-46. 1999
    ..Compared with the FEF, the DMFC has a weaker, less directional, more task-dependent oculomotor influence...
  8. ncbi Eye movements modulate visual receptive fields of V4 neurons
    A S Tolias
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building E25, Room 634, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Neuron 29:757-67. 2001
    ....
  9. ncbi Compensatory saccades made to remembered targets following orbital displacement by electrically stimulating the dorsomedial frontal cortex or frontal eye fields of primates
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
    Brain Res 727:221-4. 1996
    ..Accordingly, electrical stimulation of the DMFC does not disrupt the eye-position signal during the execution of visually-evoked saccades...
  10. ncbi Effective spread and timecourse of neural inactivation caused by lidocaine injection in monkey cerebral cortex
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
    J Neurosci Methods 74:17-26. 1997
    ..These results allow both a prediction of the timecourse of neural inactivation and an estimate of the spread of neural inactivation following injection of lidocaine into the monkey cerebral cortex...
  11. ncbi Phosphene induction and the generation of saccadic eye movements by striate cortex
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts, Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
    J Neurophysiol 93:1-19. 2005
    ..In this review it is concluded that electrical microstimulation of area V1 in trained monkeys can be used to accelerate the development of an effective prosthetic device for the blind...
  12. ncbi Direct and indirect activation of cortical neurons by electrical microstimulation
    E J Tehovnik
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    J Neurophysiol 96:512-21. 2006
    ..The definition of effective current spread therefore depends on the neural event being measured...
  13. ncbi Excitability of neural elements within the rat corpus striatum
    S A Farber
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
    J Neurosci Methods 76:93-104. 1997
    ..Likewise, investigators can activate specific striatal elements by using pulse durations that coincide with their chronaxies...
  14. ncbi Look and see: how the brain moves your eyes about
    P H Schiller
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Prog Brain Res 134:127-42. 2001
    ..In the anterior stream, the frontal eye fields, and to a lesser extent the medial eye fields, are involved in the correct execution of saccades subsequent to decisions made about where to look and where not to look...