Neurons in Primate Entorhinal Cortex Represent Gaze Position in Multiple Spatial Reference Frames.

ABSTRACT: Primates rely predominantly on vision to gather information from the environment and neurons representing visual space and gaze position are found in many brain areas. Within the medial temporal lobe, a brain region critical for memory, neurons in the entorhinal cortex of macaque monkeys exhibit spatial selectivity for gaze position. Specifically, the firing rate of single neurons reflects fixation location within a visual image (Killian et al., 2012). In the rodents, entorhinal cells such as grid cells, border cells, and head direction cells show spatial representations aligned to visual environmental features instead of the body (Hafting et al., 2005; Sargolini et al., 2006; Solstad et al., 2008; Diehl et al., 2017). However, it is not known whether similar allocentric representations ex

SUBMITTER: Meister MLR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5858590 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature