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The feeling of looking

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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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Figure 1: Discovery of a proprioceptive eye zone in primate cerebral cortex.

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  1. Marc A. Sommer is in the Department of Neuroscience, the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, A210 Langley Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA. sommer@bns.pitt.edu,

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