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Pre-excitatory pause in frontal eye field responses

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We report a new characteristic of the presaccadic activity of the neurons in the frontal eye field of macaque monkeys. A fraction of neurons exhibited a significant pause in discharge rate preceding the excitatory visual or movement-related response. This pre-excitatory pause, which has been observed in striate and extrastriate visual areas, may represent a resetting of neural activation for detailed visual processing or saccade preparation.

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  1. Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Department of Psychology, Wilson Hall, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA, , , , ,

    Takashi Sato & Jeffrey D. Schall

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Sato, T., Schall, J.D. Pre-excitatory pause in frontal eye field responses. Exp Brain Res 139, 53–58 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002210100750

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