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Science 17 September 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5435, pp. 1914 - 1917
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5435.1914
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Shape Representations and Visual Guidance of Saccadic Eye Movements

Tirin Moore

One hallmark of primate vision is that the direction of gaze is constantly shifting to position objects of interest appropriately on the fovea, where visual acuity is greatest. This process must involve the close cooperation of oculomotor and visual recognition mechanisms because visual details must be translated into specific motor commands. This paper describes the correspondence between the presaccadic activity of V4 neurons and the degree of visual guidance of saccadic eye movements to objects of different form. The results suggest that neurons that participate in coding visual stimuli are also involved in guiding the eyes to prominent features of objects.

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Building E-25, Room 634, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Present address: Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1010, USA. E-mail: tirin{at}princeton.edu

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