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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 751-759Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00943.x
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eye movements; hippocampus; single unit; spatial field
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- NICHD NIH HHS [HD36032] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS24217] Funding Source: Medline
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The activity of 330 hippocampal and inferotemporal cells was recorded while seated monkeys with fixed heads worked in a visual discrimination task. Monkeys had to move their eyes to one of five different positions to maintain gaze on an image. The image was then extinguished and the monkeys maintained a fixed gaze on the target position in darkness to obtain a reward. The five positions of image presentation were on a horizontal line, consisting of a centre position and lateral positions which were 10 and 20 degrees right and left of it. Twenty-two per cent of single units recorded from the hippocampus showed statistically significant sensitivity to target position in complete darkness. A similar fraction (23%) was significantly affected by target position in the light. Position sensitivity was also found among cells recorded from the inferotemporal cortex. Eye position significantly influenced the activity of 19% of inferotemporal units in darkness and 28% of inferotemporal units in the light. Interestingly, the populations of cells showing position effect in the light and in darkness were independent.
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