What does SC stand for?

Superior Colliculus (part of the eye)

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The researchers have recently discovered that activation of a primitive brain region, the deep layers of superior colliculus (DLSC), elicits defensive behaviours such as an exaggerated startle, hypervigilance, cowering, and escape.

Brain structures behind emotional balance in threatening situations ...

c) Your eye movements and other bodily movements are activated and managed by your cerebellum (< L little brain) and the Superior Colliculus.

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Led by Matteo Caleo of Italy's National Research Institute (CNR) in Pisa, the researchers injected a botulinum toxin into each rodent's superior colliculus, a part of the brain that deals with input from the eye.

Traveling toxin: Botox may hitch a ride on nerve cells

Sensory and motor maps in the mammalian superior colliculus.

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Retinal cells must map to a specific location in the rat's superior colliculus.

Neuroscientists at the McGovern Institute at MIT Report Surprising ...

It is known that nerve cells in the superior colliculus, one of the brain regions responsible for processing sound, mature during infancy, and then develops a preference for specific sound directions.

How we focus on specific sounds at cocktail parties

For instance, Stein and his coworkers have demonstrated that tactile and visual information converge from different directions on the superior colliculus, a midbrain region packed with multisensory cells.

Joined at the Senses

Visual stimuli to the right superior colliculus generates leftward saccades (quick, involuntary movements of the eyes as they change from one point of gaze to another), whereas visual stimuli to the left superior colliculus generates rightward saccades.

Unilateral Spatial Neglect