Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Association Areas of the Cortex

Association Areas of the Cortex

Association areas are regions of the cerebral cortex that do not have a specific sensory or motor function. Instead, they integrate and interpret information from various sources to enable higher cognitive processes such as memory, learning, and decision-making. Some key association areas include the following:
Prefrontal Association Area: This area is located in the frontal lobe and is involved in planning, decision-making, and moderating social behavior. It connects with primary motor areas,...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Young and old adult brains experience opposite effects of acute sleep restriction on the functional connectivity network.

Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)·2026

Same author

Ten simple rules for building a collaborative coding culture.

PLoS computational biology·2026

Same author

The Brain Resilience Study protocol: Building a dataset of the biological and sociocultural factors affecting brain health in older adults.

Neurobiology of aging·2026

Same author

Changes in Naturalistic Viewing in Healthy Aging and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Hippocampus·2025

Same author

Dynamic network features of functional and structural brain networks support visual working memory in aging adults.

Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)·2025

Same author

Decoding memory function through naturalistic gaze patterns.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·2025

Same journal

Does stimulus preceding negativity reflect predictions in a somatosensory roving paradigm?

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026

Same journal

Temporal Dynamics of EEG Reflect Continuous Error Correction During Force Control.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026

Same journal

Frontoparietal Hub Connectivity Integrates Information from Multiple Sources.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026

Same journal

Mapping the Heart-Brain Continuum beyond Heart Failure: Why Neurology Matters.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026

Same journal

Emergence of behavioral tinnitus in gerbils is associated with reduced spontaneous rates in single auditory nerve fibers.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026

Same journal

Decoding the neural stages from action and object recognition to mentalizing.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026

See all related articles

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: May 1, 2026

Investigating the Deployment of Visual Attention Before Accurate and Averaging Saccades via Eye Tracking and Assessment of Visual Sensitivity

Investigating the Deployment of Visual Attention Before Accurate and Averaging Saccades via Eye Tracking and Assessment of Visual Sensitivity

Published on: March 18, 2019

Predictive saccade target selection in superior colliculus during visual search.

Kelly Shen¹, Martin Paré

¹Centre for Neuroscience Studies and Departments of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences and Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6.

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience

|April 18, 2014

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Visual search involves rapid eye movements (saccades). Neurons in the superior colliculus (SC) can predict future targets before current ones are acquired, enabling faster visual search.

Keywords:

concurrent processing monkey saccade target selection visual search

More Related Videos

Simultaneous Eye Tracking and Single-Neuron Recordings in Human Epilepsy Patients

Simultaneous Eye Tracking and Single-Neuron Recordings in Human Epilepsy Patients

Published on: June 17, 2019

Characterizing the Relationship Between Eye Movement Parameters and Cognitive Functions in Non-demented Parkinson's Disease Patients with Eye Tracking

Characterizing the Relationship Between Eye Movement Parameters and Cognitive Functions in Non-demented Parkinson's Disease Patients with Eye Tracking

Published on: September 26, 2019

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: May 1, 2026

Investigating the Deployment of Visual Attention Before Accurate and Averaging Saccades via Eye Tracking and Assessment of Visual Sensitivity

Investigating the Deployment of Visual Attention Before Accurate and Averaging Saccades via Eye Tracking and Assessment of Visual Sensitivity

Published on: March 18, 2019

Simultaneous Eye Tracking and Single-Neuron Recordings in Human Epilepsy Patients

Simultaneous Eye Tracking and Single-Neuron Recordings in Human Epilepsy Patients

Published on: June 17, 2019

Characterizing the Relationship Between Eye Movement Parameters and Cognitive Functions in Non-demented Parkinson's Disease Patients with Eye Tracking

Characterizing the Relationship Between Eye Movement Parameters and Cognitive Functions in Non-demented Parkinson's Disease Patients with Eye Tracking

Published on: September 26, 2019

Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Ophthalmology

Background:

Visual search relies on sequential gaze fixations and saccades.
Short fixation durations suggest concurrent processing of saccade targets.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if saccade target selection occurs before the current target is acquired.
To examine the predictive capabilities of sensorimotor neurons in the superior colliculus (SC) during visual search.

Main Methods:

Trained rhesus monkeys on a multiple-fixation visual conjunction search task.
Simultaneously recorded sensorimotor neuron activity in the SC.
Analyzed fixation durations and SC neuronal responses relative to saccade latencies.

Main Results:

Fixation durations were significantly shorter than initial response latencies.
SC neurons discriminated targets earlier for subsequent fixations than the first fixation.
Target selection preceded visual afferent delay in over half of neurons, indicating predictive processing.

Conclusions:

The superior colliculus (SC) exhibits predictive target selection, encompassing at least two future saccade targets.
Parallel processing of neural representations on the visual salience map facilitates efficient visual search.