Brain, Vol. 118, No. 5, 1169-1183, 1995
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Cortical control of vestibular-guided saccades in man
1Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de I'Action, Collège de France, CNRS Paris, France 2Service de Neurologie, INSERM U. 289, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière Paris, France
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I. Israël, Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de I'Action, Collège de France, CNRS, 15 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
Memory-guided saccades, made to a remembered location to which gaze was directed before a passive body rotation (i.e. with a vestibular input), were electro-oculographically recorded in 24 patients with various cortical lesions and in 18 control subjects. Anticipation and latency, direction errors and accuracy of the first saccade, stability of eye position in darkness and final eye position were quantified. Patients were divided into small groups, each with lesions affecting one of the following cortical areas: left or right frontal eye field (FEF), left or right prefrontal cortex (area 46 of Brodmann) (PFC), left supplementary eye field (SEF), left or right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and right parietotemporal cortex (PTC). There were some abnormalities in the results of the right FEF group, concerning anticipation, direction errors and latency of the first saccade, but no abnormality in the accuracy of the first saccade or of the final eye position. Results in the left FEF group were normal.
Accuracy of the first saccade was impaired in the SEF group, bilaterally. Final eye position was also inaccurate in the SEF group. In both PFC groups, significant and, in general, bilateral abnormalities existed for all tested parameters. Accuracy of the first saccade was impaired in the PTC group, leftwards. In contrast, the results in both PPC groups were not significantly different from those of control subjects. Our results suggest that (i) the PFC is involved in the memorization of saccade goals probably encoded in spatiotopic coordinates; (ii) the SEF, but not the FEF, is involved in the control of accuracy of these vestibular-derived goal-directed saccades; (iii) the PTC (i.e. the vestibular cortex), but not the PPC, is involved in the control of such saccades. Therefore, a cortical network different from that involved in the control of memory-guided saccades made to visual targets, with only the PFC in common, could control vestibular-derived goal-directed saccades.
vestibular system; Oculomotor system; saccades; memory-guided saccades; cortex
Received May 16, 1994. Revised March 21, 1995. Accepted April 26, 1995.
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