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Transient visual pathway critical for normal development of primate grasping behavior.

Inaki-Carril Mundinano¹, Dylan M Fox¹, William C Kwan¹

¹Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia.

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

|January 5, 2018

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A transient visual pathway involving the pulvinar is crucial for developing visually guided reaching and grasping in primates. Damage to this pathway permanently impairs these essential manual behaviors.

Keywords:

marmoset prehension pulvinar thalamus visual cortex

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Primate Behavior
Developmental Biology

Background:

Primates, including humans, rely on vision for precise manual actions.
This visually guided behavior depends on specific visual input to the posterior parietal cortex.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the role of the thalamic pulvinar in the development of visually guided manual behaviors.
To determine the long-term effects of disrupting a specific visual pathway in infant primates.

Main Methods:

MRI-guided lesions were made to the inferior pulvinar subnucleus (PIm) in infant marmoset monkeys.
Behavioral assessments of reaching-and-grasping were performed in adulthood.
Anatomical development of relevant cortical areas was analyzed.

Main Results:

Infant lesions to PIm resulted in permanent deficits in reaching-and-grasping behavior in adult marmosets.
These functional deficits were associated with abnormal anatomical development in action-guidance cortical areas.
The findings highlight the transient nature of the retino-pulvinar-MT pathway's role.

Conclusions:

The transient retino-pulvinar-MT pathway is essential for the developmental establishment of visually guided manual behaviors in primates.
Disruption of this pathway leads to lasting impairments in motor control and environmental interaction.
This pathway is critical for primates to learn to interact with complex environmental features.