NIH R01 · 2024
Elucidating the role of the oculomotor circuit in free viewing visual search
Project Summary For almost 50 years, scientists have investigated the relationship between eye movement control and the activity of neurons in the frontal eye field (FEF), superior colliculus (SC) and lateral intraparietal area (LIP). The general findings of these studies have been that neurons in all three areas are important for eye movement behavior, but they have identified very few differences between the areas, implying that they all do similar things. Recently, a small number of labs have started using more naturalistic free-viewing behavioral tasks and have found a number of substantive differences in neural responses across these areas, suggesting that they each play a unique role.…
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