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Space and Salience in Parietal Cortex

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The parietal cortex has long been thought to participate in the neural mechanisms underlying visual attention, spatial perception, and eye movements (Critchley 1953). This review will begin by describing the attentional and spatial aspects of saccadic performance in a patient with a frontoparietal deficit, and then show how single neuron activity in one particular area, the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) renders the clinical deficits understandable in neurophysiological terms.

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  1. Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-4435, USA

    Keith D. Powell, Jacqueline Gottlieb, Makoto Kusunoki & Michael E. Goldberg

  2. Department of Neuroscience and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260, USA

    Carol L. Colby

  3. Department of Physiology Nihon, University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173, Japan

    Makoto Kusunoki

  4. Department of Neurology Georgetown, University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, 20007, USA

    Michael E. Goldberg

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  1. University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

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Powell, K.D., Colby, C.L., Gottlieb, J., Kusunoki, M., Goldberg, M.E. (1999). Space and Salience in Parietal Cortex. In: Becker, W., Deubel, H., Mergner, T. (eds) Current Oculomotor Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3054-8_4

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