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Spatial programming and the representation of salience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

Jay A. Edelman
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4435 {jae; jgb; meg}@lsr.nei.nih.gov www.nei.nih.gov/intramural/nom.htm
Jacqueline Gottlieb
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4435 {jae; jgb; meg}@lsr.nei.nih.gov www.nei.nih.gov/intramural/nom.htm
Michael E. Goldberg
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4435 {jae; jgb; meg}@lsr.nei.nih.gov www.nei.nih.gov/intramural/nom.htm

Abstract

The posterior parietal cortex and frontal eye field contain maps of visual salience on which the decision to choose a saccade may be based. However, an averaging express saccade is not represented by a victorious unimodal representation in the superior colliculus. Normalization as described by Findlay & Walker is not necessary for the generation of saccades.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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