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Cortical control of ocular saccades in humans: a model for motricity.
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Our knowledge of the cortical control of saccadic eye movements (saccades) in humans has recently progressed mainly thanks to lesion and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies, but also to functional imaging. It is now well-known that the ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2003
in Journal: Prog Brain Res
(Language : eng)
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2003 ;142():3-17
Cortical control of ocular saccades in humans: a model for motricity.
Pierrot-Deseilligny C, Müri RM, Ploner CJ, Gaymard B, Rivaud-Péchoux S
INSERM 289 and Service de Neurologie 1 (AP-HP), Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France. cp.deseilligny@psl.ap-hop-paris.fr
Our knowledge of the cortical control of saccadic eye movements (saccades) in humans has recently progressed mainly thanks to lesion and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies, but also to functional imaging. It is now well-known that the frontal eye field is involved in the triggering of intentional saccades, the parietal eye field in that of reflexive saccades, the supplementary eye field (SEF) in the initiation of motor programs comprising saccades, the pre-SEF in learning of these programs, and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in saccade inhibition, prediction and spatial working memory. Saccades may also be used as a convenient model of motricity to study general cognitive processes preparing movements, such as attention, spatial memory and motivation. Visuo-spatial attention appears to be controlled by a bilateral parieto-frontal network comprising different parts of the posterior parietal cortex and the frontal areas involved in saccade control, suggesting that visual attentional shifts and saccades are closely linked. Recently, our understanding of the cortical control of spatial memory has noticeably progressed by using the simple visuo-oculomotor model represented by the memory-guided saccade paradigm, in which a single saccade is made to the remembered position of a unique visual item presented a while before. TMS studies have determined that, after a brief stage of spatial integration in the posterior parietal cortex (inferior to 300 ms), short-term spatial memory (i.e. up to 15-20 s) is controlled by the DLPFC. Behavioral and lesion studies have shown that medium-term spatial memory (between 15-20 s and a few minutes) is specifically controlled by the parahippocampal cortex, before long-term memorization (i.e. after a few minutes) in the hippocampal formation. Lastly, it has been shown that the posterior part of the anterior cingulate cortex, called the cingulate eye field, is involved in motivation and the preparation of all intentional saccades, but not in reflexive saccades. These different but complementary study methods used in humans have thus contributed to a better understanding of both eye movement physiology and general cognitive processes preparing motricity as whole.
PMID : 12693251 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| C | Pierrot-Deseilligny | C |
| R M | Müri | RM |
| C J | Ploner | CJ |
| B | Gaymard | B |
| S | Rivaud-Péchoux | S |
Affiliation: INSERM 289 and Service de Neurologie 1 (AP-HP), Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France. cp.deseilligny@psl.ap-hop-paris.fr
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