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Volume 16, Number 11,
Issue of June 1, 1996
pp. 3714-3726
Copyright ©1996 Society for Neuroscience
Functional Anatomy of a Prelearned Sequence of Horizontal
Saccades in Humans
Received Jan. 25, 1996; revised March 20, 1996; accepted March 27, 1996.
Laurent Petit1, 2,
Christophe Orssaud1, 2,
Nathalie Tzourio1,
Fabrice Crivello1,
Alain Berthoz2, and
and Bernard Mazoyer1
1 Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle, Service
Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, 91406 Orsay Cedex, France, and
EA 1555, Université Paris 7, Paris, France, and
2 Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de
l'Action, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Collège
de France, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
We have used positron emission tomography (PET) to study the
functional anatomy of the repetition of a prelearned sequence of
horizontal saccadic eye movements. Five subjects had to memorize a
sequence of six successive horizontal saccades. The subjects were
scanned in total darkness under three different conditions: at rest,
during the execution of self-paced horizontal saccades, and while
repeating a prelearned saccades sequence. The repetition of the
prelearned saccades sequence led to specific normalized regional
cerebral blood flow (NrCBF) increases at the depth of the superior
frontal sulcus as well as at the rostral part of the supplementary
motor area, whereas at the parietal level an important activation was
observed in the intraparietal sulcus extending up to the precuneus. In
addition, it was noticed that compared with the resting control
condition, both oculomotor tasks activated a common set of cortical and
subcortical areas. At the cortical level, this network was composed of
the frontal eye fields, the supplementary eye fields, the median part
of the cingulate gyrus, and the insula. At the subcortical level, the
lenticular nucleus and the thalamus as well as the cerebellar vermis
were activated consistently. A direct comparison of our results with
those of other PET studies on spatial vision suggests that the dorsal
visuospatial pathway could be extended toward the frontal premotor
region. In such a scheme, visuospatial information computed in the
intraparietal sulcus would be transmitted to the frontal premotor
cortex to optimize a spatial-oriented behavior. This is consistent with
the early proposal that perceptual and intentional components of
spatial information are mediated through superior parietal and frontal
areas, respectively.
Key words:
saccadic eye movements;
positron emission tomography;
human;
frontal cortex;
parietal cortex;
dorsal visuospatial pathway;
frontal eye fields
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