Wardak Claire, Olivier Etienne, Duhamel Jean-René
Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5015 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69675 Bron Cedex, France.
J Neurosci. 2002 Nov 15;22(22):9877-84. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.22-22-09877.2002.
We investigated the contribution of the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) to the selection of saccadic eye movement targets and to saccade execution using muscimol-induced reversible inactivation and compared those effects with inactivation of the adjacent ventral intraparietal area (VIP) and with sham injections of saline into LIP. Three types of tasks were used: saccades to single visual or memorized targets, saccades to synchronous and asynchronous bilateral targets, and visual search of a target among distractors. LIP inactivation failed to produce deficits in the latency or accuracy of saccades to single targets, but it dramatically reduced the frequency of contralateral saccades in the presence of bilateral targets, and it increased search time for a contralateral target during serial visual search. In the latter task, the observed deficits might reflect either an ispilateral bias in saccadic search strategy or an attentional impairment in locating a target among flanking distractors within the contralateral field. No effects were observed on any of these tasks after VIP inactivation. These results suggest that one important contribution of LIP to oculomotor behavior is the selection of targets for saccades in the context of competing visual stimuli.
我们利用蝇蕈醇诱导的可逆性失活研究了顶内沟外侧区(LIP)对扫视眼动目标选择和扫视执行的作用,并将这些效应与相邻的腹侧顶内区(VIP)失活以及向LIP注射生理盐水的假注射效应进行了比较。使用了三种类型的任务:向单个视觉或记忆目标的扫视、向同步和异步双侧目标的扫视,以及在干扰物中对目标的视觉搜索。LIP失活并未导致向单个目标扫视的潜伏期或准确性出现缺陷,但在存在双侧目标时,它显著降低了对侧扫视的频率,并且在连续视觉搜索过程中增加了对侧目标的搜索时间。在后一种任务中,观察到的缺陷可能反映了扫视搜索策略中的同侧偏向,或者是在对侧视野内的侧翼干扰物中定位目标时的注意力损伤。VIP失活后,在这些任务中均未观察到任何效应。这些结果表明,LIP对眼球运动行为的一个重要作用是在竞争性视觉刺激的背景下选择扫视目标。