Publication Date:
2002-02-02
Description:
The frontal eye field and neighboring area 8Ar of the primate cortex are involved in programming and execution of saccades. Electrical microstimulation in these regions elicits short-latency contralateral saccades. To determine how spatiotemporal dynamics of microstimulation-evoked activity are converted into saccade plans, we used a combination of real-time optical imaging and microstimulation in behaving monkeys. Short stimulation trains evoked a rapid and widespread wave of depolarization followed by unexpected large and prolonged hyperpolarization. During this hyperpolarization saccades are almost exclusively ipsilateral, suggesting an important role for hyperpolarization in determining saccade goal.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Seidemann, Eyal -- Arieli, Amos -- Grinvald, Amiram -- Slovin, Hamutal -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Feb 1;295(5556):862-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurobiology and the Grodetsky Center for Studies of Higher Brain Function, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel. eyal.seidemann@weizmann.ac.il〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11823644" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Brain Mapping
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Electric Stimulation
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Electrophysiology
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Fluorescence
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Frontal Lobe/*physiology
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Haplorhini
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Membrane Potentials
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Neurons/*physiology
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Saccades/*physiology
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Time Factors
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
