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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 84 No. 2 August 2000, pp. 1103-1106
Copyright ©2000 by the American Physiological Society

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Electrical Stimulation of the Frontal Eye Field in a Monkey Produces Combined Eye and Head Movements

Tyson A. Tu and E. Gregory Keating

Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and the Program in Neuroscience, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York 13210

Tu, Tyson A. and E. Gregory Keating. Electrical Stimulation of the Frontal Eye Field in a Monkey Produces Combined Eye and Head Movements. J. Neurophysiol. 84: 1103-1106, 2000. The frontal eye field (FEF), an area in the primate frontal lobe, has long been considered important for the production of eye movements. Past studies have evoked saccade-like movements from the FEF using electrical stimulation in animals that were not allowed to move their heads. Using electrical stimulation in two monkeys that were free to move their heads, we have found that the FEF produces gaze shifts that are composed of both eye and head movements. Repeated stimulation at a site evoked gaze shifts of roughly constant amplitude. However, that gaze shift could be accomplished with varied amounts of head and eye movements, depending on their (head and eye) respective starting positions. This evidence suggests that the FEF controls visually orienting movements using both eye and head rotations rather than just shifting the eyes as previously thought.




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