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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-1-12
pubmed:abstractText
Several regions of the brain are involved in smooth-pursuit eye movement (SPEM) control, including the cortical areas MST (medial superior temporal) and FEF (frontal eye field). It has been shown that the eye-movement responses to a brief perturbation of the visual target during ongoing pursuit increases with higher pursuit velocities. To further investigate the underlying neuronal mechanism of this nonlinear dynamic gain control and the contributions of different cortical areas to it, we recorded from MSTd (dorsal division of the MST area) neurons in behaving monkeys (Macaca mulatta) during step-ramp SPEM (5-20 degrees /s) with and without superimposed target perturbation (one cycle, 5 Hz, +/-10 degrees /s). Smooth-pursuit-related MSTd neurons started to increase their activity on average 127 ms after eye-movement onset. Target perturbation consistently led to larger eye-movement responses and decreasing latencies with increasing ramp velocities, as predicted by dynamic gain control. For 36% of the smooth-pursuit-related MSTd neurons the eye-movement perturbation was accompanied by detectable changes in neuronal activity with a latency of 102 ms, with respect to the eye-movement response. The remaining smooth-pursuit-related MSTd neurons (64%) did not reflect the eye-movement perturbation. For the large majority of cases this finding could be predicted by the dynamic properties of the step-ramp responses. Almost all these MSTd neurons had large visual receptive fields responding to motion in preferred directions opposite to the optimal SPEM stimulus. Based on these findings it is unlikely that MSTd plays a major role for dynamic gain control and initiation of the perturbation response. However, neurons in MSTd could still participate in SPEM maintenance. Due to their visual field properties they could also play a role in other functions such as self-motion perception.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1522-1598
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
103
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
519-30
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-7-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
The response of MSTd neurons to perturbations in target motion during ongoing smooth-pursuit eye movements.
pubmed:affiliation
Washington National Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural