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When compared with fixation, both smooth pursuit (upper left) and saccadic (lower left) eye movements showed similar patterns of brain activation (red) and deactivation (blue). In contrast, a direct comparison between the two (right panels) revealed distinct regions more strongly associated with smooth pursuit (red) and with saccades (blue). Abbreviations: FEF, frontal eye field; hMT+, human middle temporal complex; IPS, intraparietal sulcus; PEF, premotor eye field; pCingS, posterior cingulate sulcus; SEF, supplementary eye field; SPL, superior parietal lobule.

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Tetsuya Yamamoto

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