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1 Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: shabtai.barash{at}weizmann.ac.il.
The lateral intraparietal area (LIP) contains neurons that are active during the memory interval of memory-saccades. We call these 'persistent neurons'. Here we study the activity of the persistent neurons in memory-antisaccades, 'motor' (the saccade is made toward the response field, although the response field is not stimulated visually) and 'visual' (the response field is stimulated visually, but the movement is away from the field). Most persistent neurons are active during parts of the memory intervals of both visual and motor memory-antisaccades. Typically, these parts (1) significantly overlap each other; (2) together span the entire memory interval. The amplitude of the activity changes systematically during the memory intervals of visual and motor memory-antisaccades. These changes are reflected in an antisaccade differential activity, which turns first to the visual direction and then crosses over to the motor direction. Some persistent neurons appear to show the paradoxical activity previously characterized in visual neurons; paradoxical activity accelerates the transition of the neuron's activity from visual to motor. These observations suggest that the persistent neurons reflect working memory for the computation of the antisaccade sensorimotor transformation. Ensembles of persistent neurons with different response fields may make up modules of working memory.
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