An Attention-Sensitive Memory Trace in Macaque MT Following Saccadic Eye Movements.

ABSTRACT: We experience a visually stable world despite frequent retinal image displacements induced by eye, head, and body movements. The neural mechanisms underlying this remain unclear. One mechanism that may contribute is transsaccadic remapping, in which the responses of some neurons in various attentional, oculomotor, and visual brain areas appear to anticipate the consequences of saccades. The functional role of transsaccadic remapping is actively debated, and many of its key properties remain unknown. Here, recording from two monkeys trained to make a saccade while directing attention to one of two spatial locations, we show that neurons in the middle temporal area (MT), a key locus in the motion-processing pathway of humans and macaques, show a form of transsaccadic remapping called a memor

SUBMITTER: Yao T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4764326 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature