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1Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, and Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute,West Virginia University, 2Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurology,Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 3Center for Neural Science and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences,Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 4Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,California Institute of Technology
Chapters
- 00:04Title
- 00:56Experimental Setup
- 02:49Single-Neuron Recording
- 03:24Eye Tracking
- 04:25Task
- 05:23Results: Firing Rate of Neurons can Differentiate Fixations on Targets vs. Distractors
- 06:46Conclusion
We describe a method to conduct single-neuron recordings with simultaneous eye tracking in humans. We demonstrate the utility of this method and illustrate how we used this approach to obtain neurons in the human medial temporal lobe that encode targets of a visual search.
