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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 80 No. 4 October 1998,
pp. 1775-1786
Copyright ©1998 The American Physiological Society
Department of Neurobiology and Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095-1763
Amador, Nelly, Madeleine Schlag-Rey, and John Schlag. Primate antisaccades. I. Behavioral characteristics. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 1775-1786, 1998. The antisaccade task requires a subject to make a saccade to an unmarked location opposite to a flashed stimulus. This task was originally designed to study saccades made to a goal specified by instructions. Interest for this paradigm surged after the discovery that frontal lobe lesions specifically and severely affect human performance of antisaccades while prosaccades (i.e., saccades directed to the visual stimulus) are facilitated. Training monkeys to perform antisaccades was rarely attempted in the past, and this study is the first one that describes in detail the properties of such antisaccades compared with randomly intermingled prosaccades of varying amplitude in all directions. Such randomization was found essential to force the monkeys to use the instruction cue (pro- or anti-) and the location cue (peripheral stimulus) provided within a trial rather than to direct their saccades to the location of past rewards. Each trial began with the onset of a central fixation target that conveyed by its shape the instruction to make a pro- or an antisaccade to a subsequent peripheral stimulus. In one version of the task, the monkey was allowed to make an immediate saccade to the goal; in a second version, the saccade had to wait for a go signal. Analyses of the accuracy, velocity, and latency of antisaccades compared with prosaccades were performed on a sample of 7,430 pro-/antisaccades in the "immediate saccade" task (delayed saccades suffering from known distortions). Error rates fluctuated ~25%. Results were the same for the two monkeys with respect to accuracy and velocity, but they differed in terms of reaction time. Both monkeys generated antisaccades to stimuli in all directions, at various eccentricities, but antisaccades were significantly less accurate and slower than prosaccades elicited by the same stimuli. Interestingly, saccades to the stimulus could be followed by appropriate antisaccades with no intersaccadic interval. Such instances are here referred to as "turnaround saccades." Because they occurred sometimes with a long latency, turnaround saccades did not simply reflect the cancellation of an early foveation reflex. Consistent with human data, latencies of one monkey were longer for antisaccades than for prosaccades, but the reverse was true for the other monkey who was trained differently. In summary, this study demonstrates the feasibility of providing a subhuman primate model of antisaccade performance, but at the same time it suggests some irreducible differences between human and monkey performance.
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