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J Neurophysiol 70: 576-589, 1993;
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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 70, Issue 2 576-589, Copyright © 1993 by APS

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Fixation cells in monkey superior colliculus. II. Reversible activation and deactivation

D. P. Munoz and R. H. Wurtz
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

1. We tested the hypothesis that a subset of neurons, which we have referred to as fixation cells, located within the rostral pole of the monkey superior colliculus (SC) controls the generation of saccadic eye movements. We altered the activity of these neurons with either electrical stimulation or GABAergic drugs. 2. An increase in the activity of fixation cells in the rostral SC, induced by a train of low-frequency electrical stimulation, delayed the initiation of saccades. With bilateral stimulation the monkey was able to make saccades only after stimulation ceased. 3. Pulses of stimulation delivered during the saccade produced an interruption of the saccade in midflight. The latency to the onset of this perturbation was as short as 12 ms. 4. Injection of the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) antagonist bicuculline into the rostral pole of the SC, which decreases normal GABA inhibition and increases cell activity, increased the latency of saccades to both visual and remembered targets. 5. Injection of the GABA agonist muscimol into the rostral SC, which increases normal GABA inhibition and decreases activity, reduced the latency for saccades to visual targets. The monkey also had difficulty maintaining visual fixation and suppressing unwanted saccades. 6. After muscimol injections, monkeys frequently made very short-latency saccades forming a peak in the saccade latency histogram at < 100 ms. These saccades are similar to express saccades made by normal monkeys. This finding suggests that the fixation cells in the rostral SC are critical for controlling the frequency of express saccades. 7. These results support the hypothesis that fixation cells in the rostral SC inhibit the generation of saccadic eye movements and that they form part of a system of oculomotor control, that of visual fixation.


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