Coding of interceptive saccades in parietal cortex of macaque monkeys.

ABSTRACT: The oculomotor system can initiate remarkably accurate saccades towards moving targets (interceptive saccades) the processing of which is still under debate. The generation of these saccades requires the oculomotor centers to have information about the motion parameters of the target that then must be extrapolated to bridge the inherent processing delays. We investigated to what degree the information about motion of a saccade target is available in the lateral intra-parietal area (area LIP) of macaque monkeys for generation of accurate interceptive saccades. When a multi-layer neural network was trained based on neural discharges from area LIP around the time of saccades towards stationary targets, it was also able to predict the end points of saccades directed towards moving targets. Thi

SUBMITTER: Churan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8448682 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature