Neuronal Activity in the Caudal Frontal Eye Fields of Monkeys during Memory-Based Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements: Comparison with the Supplementary Eye Fields

• Published in: Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) Vol. 21; no. 8; pp. 1910 - 1924
• Main Authors: Fukushima, Junko, Akao, Teppei, Shichinohe, Natsuko, Kurkin, Sergei, Kaneko, Chris R. S., Fukushima, Kikuro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.08.2011
• Subjects: Action Potentials - physiology; Animals; Executive Function - physiology; Frontal Lobe - anatomy & histology; Frontal Lobe - physiology; GABA-A Receptor Agonists - pharmacology; Macaca; Memory - physiology; Motion Perception - physiology; Muscimol - pharmacology; Neurons - physiology; Orientation - physiology; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Pursuit, Smooth - physiology; Space Perception - physiology; smooth pursuit; memory; muscimol; visual motion; movement preparation

Recently, we examined the neuronal substrate of predictive pursuit during memory-based smooth pursuit and found that supplementary eye fields (SEFs) contain signals coding assessment and memory of visual motion direction, decision not-to-pursue ("no-go"), and preparation for pursuit. To de...