page_title: Supplementary eye field
hierarchical_section_title: Supplementary eye field
caption_attribution_description: English: Graziano, MSA(2008) The Intelligent Movement Machine. Oxford University Press. Figure originally by Graziano, M.S.A. Some commonly accepted divisions of the cortical motor system of the monkey. PMDr = Dorsal premotor cortex, rostral division, also sometimes called Field 7 (F7). PMDc = Dorsal premotor cortex, caudal division, also sometimes called Field 2 (F2). PMVr = Ventral premotor cortex, rostral division, also sometimes called Field 5 (F5). PMVc = Ventral premotor cortex, caudal division, also sometimes called Field 4 (F4). SMA = supplementary motor area. SEF = supplementary eye field, a part of SMA. Pre-SMA = pre-supplementary motor area. FEF = frontal eye field.
context_page_description: Supplementary eye field is the name for the anatomical area of the dorsal medial frontal lobe of the primate cerebral cortex that is indirectly involved in the control of saccadic eye movements. Evidence for a supplementary eye field was first shown by Schlag, and Schlag-Rey. Current research strives to explore the SEF's contribution to visual search and its role in visual salience. The SEF constitutes together with the frontal eye fields, the intraparietal sulcus, and the superior colliculus one of the most important brain areas involved in the generation and control of eye movements, particularly in the direction contralateral to their location. Its precise function is not yet fully known. Neural recordings in the SEF show signals related to both vision and saccades somewhat like the frontal eye fields and superior colliculus, but currently most investigators think that the SEF has a special role in high level aspects of saccade control, like complex spatial transformations, learned transformations, and executive cognitive functions.
context_section_description: Supplementary eye field (SEF) is the name for the anatomical area of the dorsal medial frontal lobe of the primate cerebral cortex that is indirectly involved in the control of saccadic eye movements. Evidence for a supplementary eye field was first shown by Schlag, and Schlag-Rey. Current research strives to explore the SEF's contribution to visual search and its role in visual salience. The SEF constitutes together with the  frontal eye fields (FEF), the intraparietal sulcus (IPS), and the  superior colliculus (SC) one of the most important brain areas involved in the generation and control of eye movements, particularly in the direction contralateral to their location. Its precise function is not yet fully known. Neural recordings in the SEF show signals related to both vision and saccades somewhat like the frontal eye fields and superior colliculus, but currently most investigators think that the SEF has a special role in high level aspects of saccade control, like complex spatial transformations, learned transformations, and executive cognitive functions.
caption: Figure 1. Motor Cortex of the Monkey Brain: Pictured above are the approximate locations of the SEF and FEF in the monkey brain which we know today.
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