The frontal eye field projects to the nucleus prepositus hypoglossi in the monkey.
Following horseradish peroxidase gel implants in prearcuate cortex involving the frontal eye field (area 8) in Old and New World monkeys, bilateral anterograde labelling was observed in the nucleus prepositus hypoglossi, an important preoculomotor nucleus.
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