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November 4

Takeichi N, Kaneko CR, and Fuchs AF. (2007). Activity changes in monkey superior colliculus during saccade adaptation. J Neurophysiol 97: 4096-4107.

October 14

Yang T and Shadlen MN. (2007). Probabilistic reasoning by neurons. Nature 447: 1075-1080.

September 30

Lee K-M and Keller EL. (2008). Neural activity in the frontal eye fields modulated by the number of alternatives in target choice. J Neurosci 28: 2242-2251.

September 16

Soechting JF and Flanders M. (2008). Extrapolation of visual motion for manual interception. J Neurophysiol 99: 2956-2967.

August 26

Dunn C. (Guest Speaker). Talk on eye-movement related activity and spatial updating in area LIP and the SC in split-brain monkeys.

August 19

Isoda M and Hikosaka O. (2008). Role for subthalamic nucleus neurons in switching from automatic to controlled eye movement. J Neurosci 28: 7209-7218.

July 29

Churchland AK, Kiani R, and Shadlen MN. (2008). Decision-making with multiple alternatives. Nature Neuroscience 11: 693-702.

April 22

Bob Rafal's talk on IOR

April 8

Quian Quiroga R, Snyder LH, Batista AP, Cui H, and Andersen RA. (2006). Movement intention is better predicted than attention in the posterior parietal cortex. J Neurosci 26: 3615-3620.

April 1

Khan, AZ. (Pre-Brown Bag Talk). "Interactions between attention and visually-guided actions."

March 25

Nyffeler T, Müri R, Pflugshaupt T, Wartburg R, and Hess CW. (2006). Cortical reorganization after brain damage: the oculomotor model. Eur J Neurosci 23: 1397-1402.

March 11

Monosov IE, Trageser JC, and Thompson KG. (2008). Measurements of simultaneously recorded spiking activity and local field potentials suggest that spatial selection emerges in the frontal eye field. Neuron 57: 614-625.

Supplemental Data

Commentary:

Rainer G. (2008). Localizing cortical computations during visual selection. Neuron 57: 480-481.

March 4

Sawaguchi T and Goldman-Rakic PS. (1994). The role of D1-dopamine receptor in working memory: local injections of dopamine antagonists into the prefrontal cortex of rhesus monkeys performing an oculomotor delayed-response task. J Neurophysiol 71: 515-528.

February 12

Sawaguchi T and Iba M. (2001). Prefrontal cortical representation of visuospatial working memory in monkeys examined by local inactivation with muscimol. J Neurophysiol 86: 2041-2053.

February 5

Shokida F. (SK Colloquium). "Some Thoughts on Selected Clinical Problems (and Some EOG Kinetic Studies)."

January 29

Thomas NWD and Paré M. (2007). Temporal processing of saccade targets in parietal cortex area LIP during visual search. J Neurophysiol 97: 942-947.

January 22

Izhaky D. (SK Colloquium). "Functional Optical Imaging of Retina reveals Patterns of the Activated Retina and the Ganglion Cell Axon Arcades."

January 15

McMahon DBT and Olson CR. (2007). Repetition suppression in monkey inferotemporal cortex: Relation to behavioral priming. J Neurophysiol 97: 3532-43.

January 8

Ed's recap of Using Eye Movements as an Experimental Probe of Brain Function

December 18

Cohen JY, Pouget P, Woodman GF, Subraveti CR, Schall JD, and Rossi AF. (2007). Difficulty of visual search modulates neuronal interactions and response variability in the frontal eye field. J Neurophysiol 98: 2580-2587.

December 11

McMains SA and Somers DC. (2004). Multiple spotlights of attentional selection in human visual cortex. Neuron 42: 677-686.

December 4

Li S, Ostwald D, Giese M, and Kourtzi Z. (2007). Flexible coding for categorical decisions in the human brain. J Neurosci 27: 12321-12330.

November 27

Schlag J and Schlag-Rey M. (1987). Evidence for a supplementary eye field. J Neurophysiol 57: 179-200.

November 20

Churchland MM, Afshar A, and Shenoy KV. (2006). A central source of movement variability. Neuron 52: 1085-96.

November 13

Recap of Neuroscience

October 23

Hatsopoulos NG, Xu Q, and Amit Y. (2007). Encoding of movement fragments in the motor cortex. J Neurosci 27: 5105-5114.

October 9

He BJ, Snyder AZ, Vincent JL, Epstein A, Shulman GL, and Corbetta M. (2007). Breakdown of functional connectvity in frontoparietal networks underlies behavioral deficits in spatial neglect. Neuron 53: 905-918.

Supplemental Data

October 2

White RL and Snyder LH. (2007). Subthreshold microstimulation in frontal eye fields updates spatial memories. Exp Brain Res 181: 477-92.

September 25

O'Shea J, Johansen-Berg H, Trief D, Göbel S, and Rushworth MFS. (2007). Functionally specific reorganization in human premotor cortex. Neuron 54: 479-490.

September 18

Spering M and Gegenfurtner KR. (2007). Contrast assimilation in motion perception and smooth pursuit eye movements. J Neurophysiol 98: 1355-1363.

September 11

Mitchell JF, Sundberg KA, and Reynolds JH. (2007). Differential attention-dependent response modulation across cell classes in macaque visual area V4. Neuron 55: 131-141.

Commentary:

Sommer MA. (2007). Microcircuits for attention. Neuron 55: 6-8.

September 4

Brass M and Haggard P. (2007). To do or not to do: The neural signature of self-control. J Neurosci 27: 9141-9145.

August 28

van Beers RJ. (2007). The sources of variability in saccadic eye movements. J Neurosci 27: 8757-8770.

August 21

Moon SY, Barton JJ, Mikulski S, Polli FE, Cain MS, Vangel M, Hamalainen MS, and Manoach DS. (2007). Where left becomes right: A magnetoencephalographic study of sensorimotor transformation for antisaccades. Neuroimage 36: 1313-1323.

August 14

Dorris MC, Olivier E, and Munoz DP. (2007). Competitive integration of visual and preparatory signals in the superior colliculus during saccadic programming. J Neurosci 27: 5053-5062.

August 7

Freedman DJ and Assad JA. (2006). Experience-dependent representation of visual categories in parietal cortex. Nature 443: 85-88.

Supplementary Methods

Supplementary Figures

July 30

Seeber BU. (SK Colloquium). "On the Precedence Effect with Cochlear Implants."

July 24

Steve's recap of the Gordon Research Conference: Oculomotor System Biology

http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2007&program=oculo

July 17

Buschman TJ and Miller EK. (2007). Top-down versus bottom-up control of attention in the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices. Science 315: 1860-1862.

Supporting Material

July 10

Corneil BD, Munoz DP, and Olivier E. (2007). Priming of head premotor circuits during oculomotor preparation. J Neurophysiol 97: 701-714.

June 12

Purushothaman G and Bradley DC. (2005). Neural population code for fine perceptual decisions in area MT. Nature Neurosci 8: 99-106.

Supplementary:

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v8/n1/suppinfo/nn1373_S1.html

June 5

Seiple WH. (SK Colloquium). "Retraining Oculomotor Control in Macular Disease: Implications for Improving Reading Performance."

May 29

Wang X, Zhang M, Cohen IS, and Goldberg ME. (2007). The proprioceptive representation of eye position in monkey primary somatosensory cortex. Nature Neuroscience 10: 640-646.

Commentary:

Sommer MA. (2007). The feeling of looking. Nature Neuroscience 10: 538-540.

May 22

Cisek P and Kalaska JF. (2005). Neural correlates of reaching decisions in dorsal premotor cortex: Specification of multiple direction choices and final selection of action. Neuron 45: 801-814.

Supplemental Data

February 26

Yang SN. (SK Brown Bag). "Rule-based Decision Making in the Frontal Lobe Revealed by a Novel Ocular Baseball Task."

November 21

Hoyt C. (SK Colloquium). "The Neurology of Amblyopia."

September 26

Palmowski A. (SK Colloquium). "A European's Experience with mfERG in Glaucoma."

September 12

Takeichi N, Kaneko CRS, and Fuchs AF. (2005). Dicharge of monkey nucleus reticularis tegmenti pointis (NRTP) neurons changes during saccade adaptation. J Neurophysiol 94: 1938-51.

August 29

Pesaran B, Nelson MJ, and Andersen RA. (2006). Dorsal premotor neurons encode the relative position of the hand, eye, and goal during reach planning. Neuron 51: 125-134.

August 22

Histed MH and Miller EK. (2006). Microstimulation of frontal cortex can reorder a remembered spatial sequence. PLoS Biology 4: 826-835.

August 15

Hung CP, Kreiman G, Poggio T, and DiCarlo JJ. (2005). Fast readout of object identity from macaque inferior temporal cortex. Science 310: 863-866.

Supporting Online Material

July 25

Nakahara K, Hayashi T, Konishi S, and Miyashita Y. (2002). Functional MRI of macaque monkeys performing a cognitive set-shifting task. Science 295: 1532-36.

July 18

Sean Taffler's recap of the Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop

July 11

Maimon G and Assad JA. (2006). Parietal area 5 and the initiation of self-timed movements versus simple reactions. J Neurosci 26: 2487-98.

June 20

Horwitz GD, Batista AP, and Newsome WT. (2004). Representation of an abstract perceptual decision in macaque superior colliculus. J Neurophysiol 91: 2281-2296.

May 30

Isoda M and Tanji J. (2004). Participation of the primate presupplementary motor area in sequencing multiple saccades. J Neurophysiol 92: 653-59.

May 23

Baker JT, Patel GH, Corbetta M, and Snyder LH. (2006). Distribution of activity across the monkey cerebral cortical surface, thalamus and midbrain during rapid, visually guided saccades. Cereb Cortex 16: 447-459.

April 25

Bosking W. (SK Colloquium). "Task Dependent Read-Out of Sensory Representations for Guidance of Behavior."

April 18

Priebe NJ, Lisberger SG, and Movshon JA. (2006). Tuning for spatiotemporal frequency and speed in directionally selective neurons of macaque striate cortex. J Neurosci 26: 2941-50.

April 11

Discussion on spike-density analysis: Gaussian, Schall-ian, and Poisson spike trains.

March 21

Li X, Kim B, and Basso MA. (in press). Transient pauses in delay-period activity of superior colliculus neurons. J Neurophysiol 1-56.

Supplementary:

Sato T and Schall JD. (2001). Pre-excitatory pause in frontal eye field responses. Exp Brain Res 139: 53-58.

March 7

Li CR, Huang C, Constable RT, and Sinha R. (2006). Imaging response inhibition in a stop-signal task: Neural correlates independent of signal monitoring and post-response processing. J Neurosci 26: 186-92.

February 21

Sundberg KA, Fallah M, and Reynolds JH. (2006). A motion-dependent distortion of retinotopy in area V4. Neuron 49: 447-57.

Supplemental Figure 1

This week's article is related to a perceptual illusion called the "flash-lag" effect. For background, you can try these demos of the effect:

1) Web-based demo and discussion of the effect: http://visionlab.harvard.edu/Members/Alumni/David/flash-lag.htm

2) .mpg (movie) demo: http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/homepage/eagleman/flashlag/r1.html

February 14

Li X and Basso MA. (2005). Competitive stimulus interactions within single response fields of superior colliculus neurons. J Neurosci 25: 11357-73.

February 7

Avila MT, Hong LE, Moates A, Turano KA, and Thaker GK. (2006). Role of anticipation in schizophrenia-related pursuit initiation deficits. J Neurophysiol 95: 593-601.

January 31

Tehovnik EJ. (SK Colloquium). "Phosphene Induction and the Generation of Saccadic Eye Movements by Striate Cortex."

January 24

Tolias AS, Sultan F, Augath M, Oeltermann A, Tehovnik EJ, Schiller PH, and Logothetis NK. (2005). Mapping cortical activity elicited with electrical microstimulation by using fMRI in the macaque. Neuron 48: 1-11.

January 17

Takahashi M, Sugiuchi Y, Izawa Y, and Shinoda Y. (2005). Commisural excitation and inhibition by the superior colliculus in tectoreticular neurons projecting to omnipause neuron and inhibitory burst neuron regions. J Neurophysiol 94: 1707-26.

January 10

Bartlett JR, DeYoe EA, Doty RW, Lee BB, Lewine JD, Negrao N, and Overman Jr WH. (2005). Psychophysics of electrical stimulation of striate cortex in macaques. J Neurophysiol 94: 3430-42.

Tehovnik EJ, Slocum WM, and Schiller PH. (2005). Delaying visually guided saccades by microstimulation of macaque V1: Spatial properties of delay fields. Eur J Neurosci 22: 2635-43.

December 13

Renninger LW. (Guest Speaker). "Quantifying Eye Movement Strategies."

November 8

Nover H, Anderson CH, and DeAngelis GC. (2005). A logarithmic, scale-invariant representation of speed in macaque middle temporal area accounts for speed discrimination performance. J Neurosci 25: 10049-60.

November 1

Carpenter RHS. (2001). Express saccades: Is biomodality a result of the order of stimulus presentation? Vision Res 41: 1145-51.

Chou I, Sommer MA, and Schiller PH. (1999). Express averaging saccades in monkeys. Vision Res 39: 4200-16.

October 25

Osborne LC, Lisberger SG, and Bialek W. (2005). A sensory source for motor variation. Nature 437: 412-6.

October 11

Moore T and Fallah M. (2001). Control of eye movements and spatial attention. PNAS 98: 1273-6.

Moore T and Armstrong KM. (2003). Selective gating of visual signals by microstimulation of frontal cortex. Nature 421: 370-3.

October 4

Park J, Schlag-Rey M, and Schlag J. (in press). Frames of reference for saccadic command, tested by saccade collision in the supplementary eye field. J Neurophysiol 1-40.

September 27

Juan CH, Shorter-Jacobi SM, Schall JD. (2004). Dissociation of spatial attention and saccade preparation. PNAS 101: 15541-4.

September 13

Corneil BD, Olivier E, and Munoz DP. (2004). Visual responses on neck muscles reveal selective gating that prevents express saccades. Neuron 42: 831-41.

August 22

Lawrence BM, White RL, and Snyder LH. (2005). Delay-period activity in visual, visuomovement, and movement neurons in the frontal eye field. J Neurophysiol 94: 1498-1508.

August 16

Churchland AK and Lisberger SG. (2005). Discharge properties of MST neurons that project to the frontal pursuit area in macaque monkeys. J Neurophysiol 94: 1084-90.

August 9

Maioli C, Benaglio I, Siri S, Sosta K, and Cappa S. (2001). The integration of parallel and serial processing mechanisms invisual search: Evidence from eye movement recording. Eur J Neurosci 13: 364-72.

July 12

Özyurt J, Colonius H, and Arndt PA. (2003). Countermanding saccades: Evidence against independent processing of go and stop signals. Percept Psychophys 65: 420-8.

June 28

Bichot NP, Rossi AF, and Desimone R. (2005). Parallel and serial neural mechanisms for visual search in macaque area V4. Science 308: 529-34.

Commentary

Wolfe JM. (2005). Watching single cells. Science 308: 503-504.

June 21

Fujii N, Mushiake H, and Tanji J. (2000). Rostrocaudal distinction of the dorsal premotor area based on oculomotor involvement. J Neurophysiol 83: 1764-9.

June 14

Koyama M, Hasegawa I, Osada T, Adachi Y, Nakahara K, and Miyashita Y. (2004). Functional magnetic resonance imaging of macaque monkeys performing visually guided saccade tasks: Comparison of cortical eye fields with humans. Neuron 41: 795-807.

June 7

Leon MI and Shadlen MN. (2003). Representation of time by neurons in the posterior parietal cortex of the macaque. Neuron 38: 317-27.

Janssen P and Shadlen MN. (2005). A representation of the hazard rate of elapsed time in macaque area LIP. Nature Neurosci 8: 234-41.

May 24

Rizzuto DS, Mamelak AN, Sutherling WW, Fineman I, and Anderson RA. (2005). Spatial selectivity in human ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Nature Neurosci 8: 415-7.

May 17

Ikeda T and Hikosaka O. (2003). Reward-dependent gain and bias of visual responses in primate superior colliculus. Neuron 39: 693-700.

May 3

Logothetis NK and Wandell BA. (2004). Interpreting the BOLD Signal. Annu Rev Physiol 66: 735-69.

April 26

Logothetis NK, Pauls J, Augath M, Trinath T, and Oeltermann A. (2001). Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal. Nature 412: 150-7.

Supplementary:

Devor A, Ulbert I, Dunn AK, Narayanan SN, Jones SR, Andermann ML, Boas DA, and Dale AM. (2005). Coupling of the cortical hemodynamic response to cortical and thalamic neuronal activity. PNAS 102: 3822-7.

April 19

Connolly JD, Goodale MA, Menon RS, and Munoz DP. (2002). Human fMRI evidence for the neural correlates of preparatory set. Nature Neurosci 5: 1345-52.

Background:

Everling S and Munoz DP. (2000). Neuronal correlates for preparatory set associated with pro-saccades and anti-saccades in the primate frontal eye field. J Neurosci 20: 387-400.

April 5

Curtis CE and D'Esposito M. (2003). Success and failure suppressing reflexive behavior. J Cogn Neurosci 15: 409-18.

March 29

Gardner JL, Tokiyama SN, and Lisberger SG. (2004). A population decoding framework for motion aftereffects on smooth pursuit eye movements. J Neurosci 24: 9035-48.

March 22

Hasegawa RP, Peterson BW, and Goldberg ME. (2004). Prefrontal neurons coding suppression of specific saccades. Neuron 43: 415-25.

Commentary:

Snyder LH and Lawrence BM. (2004). Don't go there. Neuron 43: 297-299.

March 15

Carello CD and Krauzlis RJ. (2004). Manipulating intent: Evidence for a causal role of the superior colliculus in target selection. Neuron 43: 575-83.

March 8

Hoshi E and Tanji J. (2004). Differential roles of neuronal activity in the supplementary and presupplementary motor areas: From information retrieval to motor planning and execution. J Neurophysiol 92: 3482-99.

February 28

Roesch MR and Olson CR. (2004). Neuronal activity related to reward value and motivation in primate frontal cortex. Science 304: 307-10.

February 21

Averbeck BB and Lee D. (2004). Coding and transmission of information by neural ensembles. Trends Neurosci 27: 225-30.

Lee D. (2002). Analysis of phase-locked oscillations in multi-channel single-unit spike activity with wavelet cross-spectrum. J Neurosci Methods 115: 67-75.

September 7

Koyama M, Hasegawa I, Osada T, Adachi Y, Nakahara K, and Miyashita Y. (2004). Functional magnetic resonance imaging of macaque monkeys performing visually guided saccade tasks: Comparison of cortical eye fields with humans. Neuron 41: 795-807.

Tehovnik EJ, Sommer MA, Chou I-H, Slocum WM, and Schiller PH. (2000). Eye fields in the frontal lobes of primates. Brain Res Rev 32: 413-48.

August 31

Maunsell JHR. (2004). Neuronal representations of cognitive state: Reward or attention? Trends Cogn Sci 8: 261-5.

August 24

Badler JB and Keller EL. (2002). Decoding of a motor command vector from distributed activity in superior colliculus. Biol Cybern 86: 179-89.

Groh JM. (2001). Converting neural signals from place codes to rate codes. Biol Cybern 85: 159-65.

Lee C, Rohrer WH, and Sparks DL. (1988). Population coding of saccadic eye movements by neurons in the superior colliculus. Nature 332: 357-60.

August 17

Curtis CE, Rao VY, and D'Esposito M. (2004). Maintenance of spatial and motor codes during oculomotor delayed response tasks. J Neurosci 24: 3944-52.