title: Non-oriented cells of the striate cortex activated during smooth pursuit eye movements and steady fixations in behaving monkeys.
abstract: Extracellular recordings were carried out in the primary visual cortex of behaving monkeys. Neurons were activated by moving a visual stimulus on their receptive fields during periods of steady fixation and by moving their receptive fields (smooth pursuit eye movements) on a motionless visual stimulus. Regarding non-oriented cells, they turned out to be activated by the visual stimulation both during steady fixations and smooth pursuit eye movements. Therefore, the non-oriented cells we studied seem not to receive an extraretinal signal related to the slow eye movements.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D005133:Eye Movements; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D008254:Macaca nemestrina; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000166:cytology*