Neurophysiology of perceptual and motor aspects of interception.

The interception of moving targets is a complex activity that involves a dynamic interplay of several perceptual and motor processes and therefore involves a rich interaction among several brain areas. Although the behavioral aspects of interception have been studied for the past three decades, it is only during the past decade that neural studies have been focused on this problem. In addition to the interception itself, several neural studies have explored, within that context, the underlying mechanisms concerning perceptual aspects of moving stimuli, such as optic flow and apparent motion. In this review, we discuss the wealth of knowledge that has accumulated on this topic with an emphasis on the results of neural studies in behaving monkeys.

[1]  R. Gellman,et al.  Control strategies in directing the hand to moving targets , 1992, Experimental Brain Research.

[2]  A. Georgopoulos,et al.  Neural responses in motor cortex and area 7a to real and apparent motion , 2004, Experimental Brain Research.

[3]  Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer,et al.  Functional organization of parietal neuronal responses to optic-flow stimuli. , 2003, Journal of neurophysiology.

[4]  A. Saija,et al.  Evaluation of local cerebral glucose utilization and the permeability of the blood-brain barrier in the genetically epilepsy-prone rat , 2005, Experimental Brain Research.

[5]  R. Ivry,et al.  Perception and production of temporal intervals across a range of durations: evidence for a common timing mechanism. , 1995, Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance.

[6]  Daeyeol Lee,et al.  Manual interception of moving targets I. Performance and movement initiation , 1997, Experimental Brain Research.

[7]  R. Andersen,et al.  Mechanisms of Heading Perception in Primate Visual Cortex , 1996, Science.

[8]  Apostolos P. Georgopoulos,et al.  Guiding contact by coupling the taus of gaps , 2001, Experimental Brain Research.

[9]  Daeyeol Lee,et al.  Manual interception of moving targets II. On-line control of overlapping submovements , 1997, Experimental Brain Research.

[10]  A. Kristofferson,et al.  Response delays and the timing of discrete motor responses , 1973 .

[11]  Nicholas L. Port,et al.  Motor Cortical Activity during Interception of Moving Targets. , 2001, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

[12]  David N. Lee,et al.  A Theory of Visual Control of Braking Based on Information about Time-to-Collision , 1976, Perception.

[13]  Daeyeol Lee,et al.  Neuronal Clusters in the Primate Motor Cortex during Interceptin of Moving Targets. , 2001, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

[14]  P. Simmons,et al.  Seeing what is coming: building collision-sensitive neurones , 1999, Trends in Neurosciences.

[15]  J. Gibson.  The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception , 1979 .

[16]  J. S. Barlow.  The mindful brain: B.M. Edelman and V.B. Mountcastle (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1978, 100 p., U.S. $ 10.00) , 1979 .

[17]  Apostolos P. Georgopoulos,et al.  Decoding of path-guided apparent motion from neural ensembles in posterior parietal cortex , 2005, Experimental Brain Research.

[18]  Rind,et al.  The locust DCMD, a movement-detecting neurone tightly tuned to collision trajectories , 1997, The Journal of experimental biology.

[19]  Apostolos P. Georgopoulos,et al.  Interception of real and apparent motion targets: psychophysics in humans and monkeys , 2003, Experimental Brain Research.

[20]  D. Regan,et al.  Visually guided collision avoidance and collision achievement , 2000, Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

[21]  B. C. Motter,et al.  Functional properties of parietal visual neurons: mechanisms of directionality along a single axis , 1987, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.

[22]  Marion A. Eppler,et al.  Development of Visually Guided Locomotion , 1998 .

[23]  B. Frost,et al.  Computation of different optical variables of looming objects in pigeon nucleus rotundus neurons , 1998, Nature Neuroscience.

[24]  R. Wurtz,et al.  Response of monkey MST neurons to optic flow stimuli with shifted centers of motion , 1995, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.

[25]  A. Georgopoulos,et al.  Neural responses during interception of real and apparent circularly moving stimuli in motor cortex and area 7a. , 2004, Cerebral cortex.

[26]  John P. Wann,et al.  Perceiving Time to Collision Activates the Sensorimotor Cortex , 2005, Current Biology.

[27]  Apostolos P. Georgopoulos,et al.  Intercepting real and path-guided apparent motion targets , 2004, Experimental Brain Research.

[28]  A P Georgopoulos,et al.  Effects of optic flow in motor cortex and area 7a. , 2001, Journal of neurophysiology.

[29]  D. N. Lee,et al.  Guiding the swing in golf putting , 2000, Nature.

[30]  R Caminiti,et al.  Eye-hand coordination during reaching. II. An analysis of the relationships between visuomanual signals in parietal cortex and parieto-frontal association projections. , 2001, Cerebral cortex.

[31]  J. Tresilian.  Visually timed action: time-out for ‘tau’? , 1999, Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

[32]  M. Shadlen,et al.  Representation of Time by Neurons in the Posterior Parietal Cortex of the Macaque , 2003, Neuron.

[33]  A. Verri,et al.  First-order analysis of optical flow in monkey brain. , 1992, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[34]  D. Regan,et al.  Dissociation of discrimination thresholds for time to contact and for rate of angular expansion , 1993, Vision Research.

[35]  R. Wurtz,et al.  Sensitivity of MST neurons to optic flow stimuli. I. A continuum of response selectivity to large-field stimuli. , 1991, Journal of neurophysiology.

[36]  A. Georgopoulos.  Cognitive motor control: spatial and temporal aspects , 2002, Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

[37]  R N Shepard,et al.  Path-guided apparent motion. , 1983, Science.

[38]  H. Sakata.  The role of the parietal cortex in grasping. , 2003, Advances in neurology.

[39]  David N. Lee,et al.  Plummeting gannets: a paradigm of ecological optics , 1981, Nature.

[40]  Paul B. Johnson,et al.  Cortical networks for visual reaching: physiological and anatomical organization of frontal and parietal lobe arm regions. , 1996, Cerebral cortex.

[41]  R. M. Siegel,et al.  Analysis of optic flow in the monkey parietal area 7a. , 1997, Cerebral cortex.

[42]  David J. Getty,et al.  Discrimination of short temporal intervals: A comparison of two models , 1975 .

[43]  Stephen M. Rao,et al.  The evolution of brain activation during temporal processing , 2001, Nature Neuroscience.

[44]  Apostolos P Georgopoulos,et al.  Neural aspects of cognitive motor control , 2000, Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

[45]  G. Laurent,et al.  Elementary Computation of Object Approach by a Wide-Field Visual Neuron , 1995, Science.