The need for speed: eye-position signal dynamics in the parietal cortex

David M Kaplan; Lawrence H Snyder

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2012.12.005

The need for speed: eye-position signal dynamics in the parietal cortex

Neuron. 2012 Dec 20;76(6):1048-51. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.12.005.

Authors

David M Kaplan¹, Lawrence H Snyder

Affiliation

¹ Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. kaplan@eye-hand.wustl.edu

PMID: 23259941
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.12.005

Abstract

Accurate eye-position signals are critically important for localizing targets in space when the eyes move. In this issue of Neuron, Xu et al. (2012) provide evidence that eye-position gain fields in area LIP remain spatially inaccurate for some time after a saccade, indicating they are not updated rapidly enough to play a role in the computation of target locations for upcoming saccades.

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