A Causal Role for the Cortical Frontal Eye Fields in Microsaccade Deployment.

Microsaccades aid vision by helping to strategically sample visual scenes. Despite the importance of these small eye movements, no cortical area has ever been implicated in their generation. Here, we used unilateral and bilateral reversible inactivation of the frontal eye fields (FEF) to identify a...

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Main Authors: Tyler R Peel, Ziad M Hafed, Suryadeep Dash, Stephen G Lomber, Brian D Corneil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-08-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4980061?pdf=render