Brain, Vol. 123, No. 11, 2273-2288,
November 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
The neurology of saccades and covert shifts in spatial attention
An event-related fMRI study
Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, University College London, UK
Correspondence to:
R. J. Perry, Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Darwin Building, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK E-mail: r.perry{at}ucl.ac.uk
Visual neglect occurs most frequently and persistently after lesions that include the right supramarginal gyrus (SMG), a part of the inferior parietal lobule. Patients with this syndrome make very few saccades to the left, and show abnormal performance on tasks in which they must covertly shift their attention to the left, suggesting that the right SMG is involved in the generation of saccades and attention shifts. Functional imaging studies of saccades and covert attention shifts in the normal brain, however, have shown weak or absent responses in both SMGs. We used event-related functional MRI to re-examine the responses to saccades and attention shifts within a single experiment, and to assess responses to left- and right-sided stimuli independently. When subjects made saccades to peripheral stimuli, the expected responses were seen in striate and prestriate cortex, the superior parietal lobules, the frontal eye fields, the supplementary motor area and the anterior insulae. In addition there was a response in the right SMG but not in the left SMG, as predicted from the clinical literature. When subjects made a covert visual assessment of the peripheral stimulus without any saccade, greater activity was seen in all of the areas in the frontoparietal network. Each area showed a bias towards contralateral stimuli, with two exceptions: the anterior insulae gave mainly ipsilateral responses, whilst the right SMG gave equal responses to right- and left-sided stimuli. These findings are discussed in the context of current theories pertaining to the clinical syndrome of neglect.
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