Lower visual field preference for the visuomotor control of limb movements in the human dorsomedial parietal cortex.

ABSTRACT: Visual cues coming from the lower visual field (VF) play an important role in the visual guidance of upper and lower limb movements. A recently described region situated in the dorsomedial parietal cortex, area hPEc (Pitzalis et al. in NeuroImage 202:116092, 2019), might have a role in integrating visually derived information with somatomotor signals to guide limb interaction with the environment. In macaque, it has been demonstrated that PEc receives visual information mostly from the lower visual field but, to date, there has been no systematic investigation of VF preference in the newly defined human homologue of macaque area PEc (hPEc). Here we examined the VF preferences of hPEc while participants performed a visuomotor task implying spatially directed delayed eye-, hand- and foot-mov

SUBMITTER: Maltempo T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8541995 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature