HOW THE FRONTAL EYE FIELD CAN IMPOSE A SACCADE GOAL ON SUPERIOR COLLICULUS NEURONS

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作者
SCHLAGREY, M [1 ]
SCHLAG, J [1 ]
DASSONVILLE, P [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES,BRAIN RES INST,LOS ANGELES,CA 90024
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10.1152/jn.1992.67.4.1003
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Q189 [神经科学];
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071006 ;
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Saccades were electrically evoked from the frontal eye field (FEF) of two trained monkeys while saccade-cells were recorded from the intermediate layers of the superior colliculus (SC). We found that FEF microstimulation, eliciting saccades of a given vector, excited SC saccade-cells encoding the same vector and inhibited all others. Such a mechanism can prevent competing commands from arising simultaneously in different structures.
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