Frontal eye field

Question 1

What is the frontal eye field?

Answer 1

frontal area that corresponds to Brodmann’s areas 6, 8 and 9, concerned with voluntary control of eye movement (saccades)

Question 2

Which 3 Brodmann’s areas does the frontal eye field correspond to?

Answer 2

6, 8, 9

Question 3

What is the journey after fibres have passed through the frontal eye field?

Answer 3

pass from here to the superior colliculus, in turn connected to extraocular cranial nerve nuclei (III, IV, VI) and anterior horn cells (motor neurones) in cervical spinal cord segments

Question 4

What is th function of the frontal eye field?

Answer 4

concerned with voluntary control of eye movements (saccades)

allow coordination of head and neck movements with eye movements