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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 40, Issue 23, Pages 4525-4535Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0300-20.2020
Keywords
fMRI; functional connectivity; grasp; parietal cortex; saccades; transsaccadic integration
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Brain-in-Action CREATE Program
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarships in Science and Technology)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Marie Curie Fellowship
- Canada Research Chair Program
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Coordinated reach-to-grasp movements are often accompanied by rapid eye movements (saccades) that displace the desired object image relative to the retina. Parietal cortex compensates for this by updating reach goals relative to current gaze direction, but its role in the integration of oculomotor and visual orientation signals for updating grasp plans is unknown. Based on a recent perceptual experiment, we hypothesized that inferior parietal cortex (specifically supramarginal gyrus [SMG]) integrates saccade and visual signals to update grasp plans in additional intraparietal/superior parietal regions. To test this hypothesis in humans (7 females, 6 males), we used a functional magnetic resonance paradigm, where saccades sometimes interrupted grasp preparation toward a briefly presented object that later reappeared (with the same/different orientation) just before movement. Right SMG and several parietal grasp regions, namely, left anterior intraparietal sulcus and bilateral superior parietal lobule, met our criteria for transsaccadic orientation integration: they showed task-dependent saccade modulations and, during grasp execution, they were specifically sensitive to changes in object orientation that followed saccades. Finally, SMG showed enhanced functional connectivity with both prefrontal saccade regions (consistent with oculomotor input) and anterior intraparietal sulcus/superior parietal lobule (consistent with sensorimotor output). These results support the general role of parietal cortex for the integration of visuospatial perturbations, and provide specific cortical modules for the integration of oculomotor and visual signals for grasp updating.
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