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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 78 No. 1 July 1997, pp. 567-571
Copyright ©1997 The American Physiological Society

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Neuronal Activity in the Ventral Part of Premotor Cortex During Target-Reach Movement is Modulated by Direction of Gaze

Hajime Mushiake1, 2, Yasuyuki Tanatsugu1, and Jun Tanji1

1 Department of Physiology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai 980; and 2 Precursory Research Organization for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Tokyo 105, Japan

Mushiake, Hajime, Yasuyuki Tanatsugu, and Jun Tanji. Neuronal activity in the ventral part of premotor cortex during target-reach movement is modulated by direction of gaze. J. Neurophysiol. 78: 567-571, 1997. We recorded 200 neurons from the ventral part of the premotor cortex (PMv) and 110 neurons from the primary motor cortex (MI) of a monkey performing a visually cued arm-reaching task with a delay. We compared neuronal activity in the premovement period while the monkey reached the target with the eyes fixating on either a left or right fixation target. Our data demonstrate that about half of the movement-related activity in the PMv was modulated by the direction of gaze. In contrast, a vast majority of the activity of MI neurons and about half of PMv neurons were not influenced by the direction of gaze. We further analyzed the movement-related activity during the reaching movement to targets at the top, bottom, left, and right of each fixation point. The magnitude of activity of neurons showing the gaze-direction selectivity was primarily determined by the position of the reaching target relative to the eye-fixation target, and not by the position of the target relative to the animal's body. These data suggest that a part of the coordinate transformation of the motor command signals concerning the direction of reaching from the retinotopic to body-centered frame of reference may occur at the level of premotor cortex but not in MI.




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