Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Memory-guided microsaccades

  • Konstantin F. Willeke,
  • Xiaoguang Tian,
  • Antimo Buonocore,
  • Joachim Bellet,
  • Araceli Ramirez-Cardenas,
  • Ziad M. Hafed

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11711-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Microsaccades are small-amplitude, fixational eye movements that are largely thought to be involuntary. Here, the authors demonstrate that monkeys (and humans) can be easily trained to respond to a remembered target location with a volitional microsaccade, and that a population of superior colliculus neurons is selectively associated with them.