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1 Neurosci, Queen's univ, Kingston, Canada
2 Physiol, Queen's Univ, Kingston, Canada
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pare{at}biomed.queensu.ca.
We investigated whether the lateral intraparietal (LIP) area -- a subdivision of parietal cortex anatomically interposed between visual cortical areas and saccade executive centers -- contains neurons with activity patterns sufficient to contribute to the active process of selecting saccade targets in visual search. Visually responsive neurons were recorded while monkeys searched for a color-different target presented concurrently with seven distractors evenly distributed in a circular search array. We found that LIP neurons initially responded indiscriminately to the presentation of a visual stimulus in their response fields, regardless of its feature and identity. Their activation nevertheless evolved to signal the search target before saccade initiation: an ideal observer could reliably discriminate the target from the individual activation of 60% of neurons, on average, 138 ms after stimulus presentation and 26 ms before saccade initiation. Importantly, the timing of LIP neuronal discrimination varied proportionally with reaction times. These findings suggest that LIP activity reflects the selection of both the search target and the targeting saccade during active visual search.
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