論文

査読有り 責任著者 国際誌
2021年3月4日

The posterior parietal cortex contributes to visuomotor processing for saccades in blindsight macaques.

Communications biology
  • Rikako Kato
  • ,
  • Takuya Hayashi
  • ,
  • Kayo Onoe
  • ,
  • Masatoshi Yoshida
  • ,
  • Hideo Tsukada
  • ,
  • Hirotaka Onoe
  • ,
  • Tadashi Isa
  • ,
  • Takuro Ikeda

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開始ページ
278
終了ページ
278
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1038/s42003-021-01804-z

Patients with damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) lose visual awareness, yet retain the ability to perform visuomotor tasks, which is called "blindsight." To understand the neural mechanisms underlying this residual visuomotor function, we studied a non-human primate model of blindsight with a unilateral lesion of V1 using various oculomotor tasks. Functional brain imaging by positron emission tomography showed a significant change after V1 lesion in saccade-related visuomotor activity in the intraparietal sulcus area in the ipsi- and contralesional posterior parietal cortex. Single unit recordings in the lateral bank of the intraparietal sulcus (lbIPS) showed visual responses to targets in the contralateral visual field on both hemispheres. Injection of muscimol into the ipsi- or contralesional lbIPSs significantly impaired saccades to targets in the V1 lesion-affected visual field, differently from previous reports in intact animals. These results indicate that the bilateral lbIPSs contribute to visuomotor function in blindsight.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01804-z
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33664430
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7933420
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1038/s42003-021-01804-z
  • PubMed ID : 33664430
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC7933420

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