Magariños-Ascone C, García-Austt E, Buño W
Dpto. de Investigación, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
Brain Res. 1994 May 23;646(2):299-302. doi: 10.1016/0006-8993(94)90093-0.
Responses of substantia nigra (SN) pars compacta (SNc) and reticulata (SNr) neurons to sensory stimulation and movement were investigated in awake Macaca fascicularis. Concern was assigned to polysensory and sensory/motor convergence on the same cell, which were found in 12% and 9% of the neurons, respectively. Others were modality specific (35%) or unresponsive (44%). The convergence lends support to the notion that SN plays an important role in sensory-motor integration.