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JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
卷 92, 期 2, 页码 949-958出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00830.2003
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- NEI NIH HHS [EY 12212] Funding Source: Medline
The superior colliculus (SC) has long been known to be important for the control of saccades, and recent findings indicate that the rostral SC (rSC) plays some role in pursuit as well. The recent finding that the prelude activity of some SC neurons exhibits directional selectivity suggests that the rSC might process visual motion signals relevant for the control of pursuit. We have now tested the activity of buildup neurons in the rSC during the passive viewing of motion stimuli placed within their response field and also during the previewing of visual motion stimuli that were subsequently tracked with pursuit eye movements. We found that rSC buildup neurons typically responded well to motion stimuli, but that they exhibited essentially no selectivity for the direction or speed of visual motion, and that they also responded well to stationary flickering dots. However, during the previewing of visual motion prior to the onset of pursuit, many neurons did exhibit a buildup of activity similar to that exhibited before saccades. These results are inconsistent with the notion that the rSC mediates visual motion signals used to drive pursuit, but instead support the idea that visual motion signals can be used by rSC neurons as part of a mechanism for selecting targets for pursuit and saccades.
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