Visual input to the visuomotor mechanisms of the monkey's parietal lobe.
A newly identified class of neurons of the parietal cortex, studied in waking monkeys (Macaca mulatta), is activated by visual stimuli, perhaps via the retino-collicular visual pathway. This afferent input is thought to provide the visual cues activating the visuomotor mechanisms of the parietal lobe for the direction of visual attention.
D000200:Action Potentials; D000344:Afferent Pathways; D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D005133:Eye Movements; D005829:Geniculate Bodies / Q000502:physiology; D000882:Haplorhini; D008027:Light; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008297:Male; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D012438:Saccades; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D014794:Visual Fields; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*