The introduction of a temporal gap between the disappearance of an initially fixated target
and the appearance of an eccentric saccadic target results in a general reduction of saccadic …

Behavioral studies suggest that making a decision involves representing the overall desirability
of all available actions and then selecting that action that is most desirable. Physiological …

… 6, 7) compared with the correlations obtained in a previous experiment (Dorris et al., 1997).
In … MC Dorris was supported by a Queen’s University graduate fellowship. DP Munoz is an …

… DORRIS AND DOUGLAS P. MUNOZ Medical Research Council Group in Sensory-Motor …
MC Dorris was supported by Queen’s Graduate and Dean’s awards. DP Munoz is a fellow …

… colliculus (SC) is a critical node in the visual orienting pathway (Munoz, Dorris, Pare, & …
convolve spike trains (as described previously; see Dorris & Munoz, 1998). All procedures were …

… Our first goal in this next set of experiments (Dorris and Glimcher, 2004) was to behavioral
task which engaged humans in voluntary decision making and which could also be employed …

… This paradigm can also be used to study effective collicular interactions that are critical for
quantifying the structure of our model (Olivier, Dorris, & Munoz, 1999). We have estimated this …

… MC Dorris was supported by a Queen’s University Graduate Fellowship. TL Taylor was
supported by NSERC and Killam Memorial Trust Fund scholarships. DP Munoz is a Medical …

We investigated how the brain switches between the preparation of a movement where a
stimulus is the target of the movement, and a movement where a stimulus serves as a …

Decisions are faster and less accurate when conditions favor speed, and are slower and
more accurate when they favor accuracy. This phenomenon is referred to as the speed-…