Coding of Visual Space by Premotor Neurons
- 11 November 1994
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 266 (5187), 1054-1057
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7973661
Abstract
In primates, the premotor cortex is involved in the sensory guidance of movement. Many neurons in ventral premotor cortex respond to visual stimuli in the space adjacent to the hand or arm. These visual receptive fields were found to move when the arm moved but not when the eye moved; that is, they are in arm-centered, not retinocentric, coordinates. Thus, they provide a representation of space near the body that may be useful for the visual control of reaching.Keywords
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