Working memory for saccadic eye movements in the parietal cortex

Area LIP of the parietal cortex is related to saccades, to visual attention, and additional related cognitive processes, and contains neurons that show persistent activity in memory-guided saccades. The talk will focus on comparisons of the neuronal activity (1) during memory-saccades towards versus opposite the target's direction (prosaccades and antisaccades), and (2) during memory-saccades comprising unguided choice versus guided-choice. We will consider computational problems and other implications arising from the results.