This panel will report on a variety of brain areas in monkeys in which some mixture of signals were observed, and will discuss the ramifications of these results. Groh will describe neurons in the brainstem auditory pathway that are influenced by eye position, and will discuss the role such modulation might serve. Wise will argue that some prefrontal cortex neurons reflect the reports monkeys make in a perceptual task, while a separate prefrontal population appears to reflect the visual guidance of movement. Finally, Horwitz will show that specific training can induce direction-selective visual responses in some intermediate layer superior colliculus neurons, and will discuss how these responses may contribute to the generation of rapid eye movements. Our talks address an issue of general interest.
Systems discussed include visual, auditory, oculomotor and skeletomotor.
Speakers include one established investigator, two junior faculty, and one advanced graduate student.