Sensory cortex area 3a contains a map of the body. A new paper reports the location of eye position signals in this map, which should allow researchers to test the functions of eye position signals and visual gain fields in more detail.
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Sommer, M. The feeling of looking. Nat Neurosci 10, 538–540 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0507-538
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