Item type: | Article | ||||
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Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Neurophysiology | ||||
Publisher: | AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC | ||||
Place of Publication: | BETHESDA | ||||
Volume: | 105 | ||||
Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 5 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 2438-2447 | ||||
Date: | 2011 | ||||
Institutions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie I (Allgemeine Psychologie I und Methodenlehre) - Prof. Dr. Mark W. Greenlee | ||||
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Keywords: | FRONTAL EYE FIELD; EVENT-RELATED FMRI; VISUALLY GUIDED SACCADES; HUMAN EXPRESS SACCADES; MONKEY SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; RESPONSE-INHIBITION; COGNITIVE CONTROL; SUBCORTICAL CONTRIBUTIONS; CORTICAL REGIONS; PREPARATORY SET; oculomotor control; functional magnetic resonance imaging; express saccades; trial-by-trial variability | ||||
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology 500 Science > 570 Life sciences | ||||
Status: | Published | ||||
Refereed: | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
Created at the University of Regensburg: | Yes | ||||
Item ID: | 41207 |
Abstract
Ozyurt J, Greenlee MW. Neural correlates of inter-and intra-individual saccadic reaction time differences in the gap/overlap paradigm. J Neurophysiol 105: 2438-2447, 2011. First published February 23, 2011; doi:10.1152/jn.00660.2009.-To examine the neural correlates of contextually differing control mechanisms in saccade initiation, we studied 18 subjects who performed two saccade paradigms in a ...

Abstract
Ozyurt J, Greenlee MW. Neural correlates of inter-and intra-individual saccadic reaction time differences in the gap/overlap paradigm. J Neurophysiol 105: 2438-2447, 2011. First published February 23, 2011; doi:10.1152/jn.00660.2009.-To examine the neural correlates of contextually differing control mechanisms in saccade initiation, we studied 18 subjects who performed two saccade paradigms in a pseudo-random order, while their eye movements were recorded in the MRI scanner (1.5 T). In the gap task the fixation point was extinguished 200 ms before target onset, and in the overlap task the fixation point vanished 500 ms after target onset. Subjects were asked to maintain stable fixation in the fixation period and to quickly saccade to peripherally presented targets. Inter-individual activation differences were assessed using regression analyses at the second level, with mean saccadic reaction time (SRT) of subjects as a covariate. To identify brain regions varying with trial-by-trial changes in SRTs, we included SRTs as a parametric modulation regressor in the general linear model. All analyses were regions of interest based and were performed separately for the gap and overlap conditions. For the gap paradigm, we did not obtain activation in regions previously shown to be involved in preparatory processes with much longer gap periods. Interestingly, both inter-and intra-individual variability analyses revealed a positive correlation of activation in frontal and parietal eye-movement regions with SRTs, indicating that slower saccade performance is possibly associated with higher cortical control. For the overlap paradigm, the trial-by-trial variability analysis revealed a positive correlation of activation in the right opercular inferior frontal gyrus with SRTs, possibly linked to fixation-related processes that have to be overcome to perform a speeded saccade in presence of a fixation point.
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