Coding of visual space by premotor neurons.
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In primates, the premotor cortex is involved in the sensory guidance of movement. Many neurons in ventral premotor cortex respond to visual stimuli in the space adjacent to the hand or arm. These visual receptive fields were found to move when the arm moved but not when the eye moved; that is, they are in arm-centered, not retinocentric, coordinates. Thus, they provide a representation of space near the body that may be useful for the visual control of reaching.
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Single neurons in ventral premotor cortex, putamen, and parietal cortex are selectively modulated by objects near the hand or face.
“Several studies have shown that activities of single neurons in ventral premotor cortex (Graziano, Yap, & Gross, 1994;Rizzolatti, Scandolara, Matelli, & Gentilucci, 1981), the putamen (Graziano & Gross, 1993) and the parietal cortex (Colby, Duhamel, & Goldberg, 1993) were selectively modulated by the presence of objects near the hand or the face.”
From The Peripersonal Space in a social world (2021) · cites this paper as Graziano, Yap, & Gross, 1994
Peripersonal space is encoded in body-part reference frames.
“Additionally, peripersonal space has been shown to be encoded in body-part reference frames [36], [37], [38], [39], [40]”
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- Authors
- Graziano, M. S. A., Yap, G. S., & Gross, C. G.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1994-11-11
- Volume
- 266
- Issue
- 5187
- Pages
- 1054-1057
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2070609323
- Cited by
- 841
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 16.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01mh019420-24)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH-19420)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Keywords
- premotor cortex, ventral premotor cortex, visual receptive fields, reaching, primate motor control
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Macaca fascicularis, Male, Neurons, Space Perception, Visual Fields, Prefrontal Cortex
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