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A pathway in primate brain for internal monitoring of movements.

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Sommer, MA; Wurtz, RH
Published in: Science (New York, N.Y.)
May 2002

It is essential to keep track of the movements we make, and one way to do that is to monitor correlates, or corollary discharges, of neuronal movement commands. We hypothesized that a previously identified pathway from brainstem to frontal cortex might carry corollary discharge signals. We found that neuronal activity in this pathway encodes upcoming eye movements and that inactivating the pathway impairs sequential eye movements consistent with loss of corollary discharge without affecting single eye movements. These results identify a pathway in the brain of the primate Macaca mulatta that conveys corollary discharge signals.

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Science (New York, N.Y.)

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EISSN

1095-9203

ISSN

0036-8075

Publication Date

May 2002

Volume

296

Issue

5572

Start / End Page

1480 / 1482

Related Subject Headings

  • Superior Colliculi
  • Saccades
  • Proprioception
  • Neurons
  • Neural Pathways
  • Muscimol
  • Mediodorsal Thalamic Nucleus
  • Macaca mulatta
  • General Science & Technology
  • GABA Agonists
 

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Sommer, M. A., & Wurtz, R. H. (2002). A pathway in primate brain for internal monitoring of movements. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5572), 1480–1482. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1069590
Sommer, Marc A., and Robert H. Wurtz. “A pathway in primate brain for internal monitoring of movements.Science (New York, N.Y.) 296, no. 5572 (May 2002): 1480–82. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1069590.
Sommer MA, Wurtz RH. A pathway in primate brain for internal monitoring of movements. Science (New York, NY). 2002 May;296(5572):1480–2.
Sommer, Marc A., and Robert H. Wurtz. “A pathway in primate brain for internal monitoring of movements.Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 296, no. 5572, May 2002, pp. 1480–82. Epmc, doi:10.1126/science.1069590.
Sommer MA, Wurtz RH. A pathway in primate brain for internal monitoring of movements. Science (New York, NY). 2002 May;296(5572):1480–1482.
Journal cover image

Published In

Science (New York, N.Y.)

DOI

EISSN

1095-9203

ISSN

0036-8075

Publication Date

May 2002

Volume

296

Issue

5572

Start / End Page

1480 / 1482

Related Subject Headings

  • Superior Colliculi
  • Saccades
  • Proprioception
  • Neurons
  • Neural Pathways
  • Muscimol
  • Mediodorsal Thalamic Nucleus
  • Macaca mulatta
  • General Science & Technology
  • GABA Agonists