期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 37, 期 8, 页码 2234-2257出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1984-16.2016
关键词
choice; decision-making; electrophysiology; microstimulation; pulvinar; saccades
资金
- Hermann and Lilly Schilling Foundation
- German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) [WI 4046/1-1, FOR 1847 GA1475-B4, KA 3726/2-1]
- Center for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain Primate Platform
- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory of the German Primate Center
The pulvinar complex is interconnected extensively with brain regions involved in spatial processing and eye movement control. Recent inactivation studies have shown that the dorsal pulvinar (dPul) plays a role in saccade target selection; however, it remains unknown whether it exerts effects on visual processing or at planning/execution stages. We used electrical microstimulation of the dPul while monkeys performed saccade tasks toward instructed and freely chosen targets. Timing of stimulation was varied, starting before, at, or after onset of target(s). Stimulation affected saccade properties and target selection in a time-dependent manner. Stimulation starting before but overlapping with target onset shortened saccadic reaction times (RTs) for ipsiversive (to the stimulation site) target locations, whereas stimulation starting at and after target onset caused systematic delays for both ipsiversive and contraversive locations. Similarly, stimulation starting before the onset of bilateral targets increased ipsiversive target choices, whereas stimulation after target onset increased contraversive choices. Properties of dPul neurons and stimulation effects were consistent with an overall contraversive drive, with varying outcomes contingent upon behavioral demands. RT and choice effects were largely congruent in the visually-guided task, but stimulation during memory-guided saccades, while influencing RTs and errors, did not affect choice behavior. Together, these results show that the dPul plays a primary role in action planning as opposed to visual processing, that it exerts its strongest influence on spatial choices when decision and action are temporally close, and that this choice effect can be dissociated from motor effects on saccade initiation and execution.
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