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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

Visuomotor flexibility is embedded in the topography of frontal cortex.

Nicholas M Dotson, John H Reynolds

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nicholas M DotsonThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0885-2182
John H ReynoldsThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6988-4607

Funding

Spatiotemporal patterns of neural activity and their role in perceptionR01EY028723 · NEI · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI Lyle Edward Muller, JOHN H REYNOLDS · 2018 to 2026
$3.7M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY028723
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Visual selection and saccade targeting are not obligatorily coupled, allowing a stimulus at one location to guide an eye movement toward another. This is mediated by frontal oculomotor cortex, where maps of visual and motor space converge, yet whether the topographic relationship between these maps itself contributes to this flexibility is unknown. Using Neuropixels recordings across horizontal segments of marmoset cortex, we find that individually visual and saccade vector angles change smoothly, with occasional abrupt jumps. Rather than a one-to-one visual-motor mapping, local cortical patches contain a combination of aligned and misaligned vector angles. Mosaic map models reproduce the empirical distributions of local angle differences for visual and motor maps, revealing that the two maps have constrained and distinct spatial scales. When combined, these mosaic maps generate a moiré pattern that quantitatively matches the observed visual-motor angular differences, providing a substrate for flexible transformations between visual inputs and saccade outputs.

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PMID42244691
PMCPMC13232317

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