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J Neurophysiol 83: 2374-2391, 2000;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 83 No. 4 April 2000, pp. 2374-2391
Copyright ©2000 by the American Physiological Society

Early Coding of Reaching in the Parietooccipital Cortex

Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer,1 Stefano Ferraina,1 Takashi Mitsuda,1 Barbara Marconi,1 Aldo Genovesio,1 Paolo Onorati,1 Francesco Lacquaniti,2,3 and Roberto Caminiti1

 1Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Università di Roma `la Sapienza,' 00185 Rome;  2Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Santa Lucia, 00179 Rome; and  3Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università di Roma `Tor Vergata,' 00133 Rome, Italy

Battaglia-Mayer, Alexandra, Stefano Ferraina, Takashi Mitsuda, Barbara Marconi, Aldo Genovesio, Paolo Onorati, Francesco Lacquaniti, and Roberto Caminiti. Early Coding of Reaching in the Parietooccipital Cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 83: 2374-2391, 2000. Neural activity was recorded in the parietooccipital cortex while monkeys performed different tasks aimed at investigating visuomotor interactions of retinal, eye, and arm-related signals on neural activity. The tasks were arm reaching 1) to foveated targets; 2) to extrafoveal targets, with constant eye position; 3) within an instructed-delayed paradigm, under both light and darkness; 4) saccadic eye movements toward, and static eye holding on peripheral targets; and 5) visual fixation and stimulation. The activity of many cells was modulated during arm reaction (68%) and movement time (58%), and during static holding of the arm in space (64%), when eye position was kept constant. Eye position influenced the activity of many cells during hand reaction (45%) and movement time (51%) and holding of hand static position (69%). Many cells (56%) were also modulated during preparation for hand movement, in the delayed reach task. Modulation was present also in the dark in 59% of cells during this epoch, 51% during reaction and movement time, and 48% during eye/hand holding on the target. Cells (50%) displaying light-dark differences of activity were considered as related to the sight and monitoring of hand motion and/or position in the visual field. Saccadic eye movements modulated a smaller percentage (25%) of cells than eye position (68%). Visual receptive fields were mapped in 44% of the cells studied. They were generally large and extended to the periphery of the tested (30°) visual field. Sixty-six percent of cells were motion sensitive. Therefore the activity of many neurons in this area reflects the combined influence of visual, eye, and arm movement-related signals. For most neurons, the orientation of the preferred directions computed across different epochs and tasks, therefore expression of all different eye- and hand-related activity types, clustered within a limited sector of space, the field of global tuning. These spatial fields might be an ideal frame to combine eye and hand signals, thanks to the congruence of their tuning properties. The relationships between cell activity and oculomotor and visuomanual behavior were task dependent. During saccades, most cells were recruited when the eye moved to a spatial location that was also target for hand movement, whereas during hand movement most cells fired depending on whether or not the animal had prior knowledge about the location of the visual targets.




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