Frutiger, Kathrin; Cazzoli, Dario; Müri, René Martin; Bassetti, Claudio; Nyffeler, Thomas; Barton, Jason Jeremy Sinclair (2013). The Frontal Eye Field Is Involved in Visual Vector Inversion in Humans – A Theta Burst Stimulation Study. PLoS ONE, 8(12), e83297. Public Library of Science 10.1371/journal.pone.0083297
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In the antisaccade task, subjects are requested to suppress a reflexive saccade towards a visual target and to perform a saccade towards the opposite side. In addition, in order to reproduce an accurate saccadic amplitude, the visual saccade vector (i.e., the distance between a central fixation point and the peripheral target) must be exactly inverted from one visual hemifield to the other. Results from recent studies using a correlational approach (i.e., fMRI, MEG) suggest that not only the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) but also the frontal eye field (FEF) might play an important role in such a visual vector inversion process. In order to assess whether the FEF contributes to visual vector inversion, we applied an interference approach with continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) during a memory-guided antisaccade task. In 10 healthy subjects, one train of cTBS was applied over the right FEF prior to a memory-guided antisaccade task. In comparison to the performance without stimulation or with sham stimulation, cTBS over the right FEF induced a hypometric gain for rightward but not leftward antisaccades. These results obtained with an interference approach confirm that the FEF is also involved in the process of visual vector inversion.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Frutiger, Kathrin, Cazzoli, Dario, Müri, René Martin, Bassetti, Claudio L.A., Nyffeler, Thomas |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
1932-6203 |
Publisher: |
Public Library of Science |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Valentina Rossetti |
Date Deposited: |
16 Jun 2014 13:55 |
Last Modified: |
02 Mar 2023 23:25 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1371/journal.pone.0083297 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.53731 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/53731 |
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