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Medial eye fields

Medial eye fields are areas in the frontal lobe of the primate brain that play a role in visually guided eye movement. Most neuroscientists refer to this area as the supplementary eye fields. Eye fields are divided into two hemispheres regulated by sonic hedgehog (Shh) and Six3.

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Medial eye fields are areas in the frontal lobe of the primate brain that play a role in visually guided eye movement.1 Most neuroscientists refer to this area as the supplementary eye fields. Eye fields are divided into two hemispheres regulated by sonic hedgehog (Shh) and Six3.2

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  1. Schiller PH, Chou IH (Jul 1998). "The effects of frontal eye field and dorsomedial frontal cortex lesions on visually guided eye movements". Nat Neurosci. 1 (3): 248–53. doi:10.1038/693. PMID 10195151. S2CID 19863188.
  2. Heavner, Whitney; Pevny, Larysa (2012-12-01). "Eye Development and Retinogenesis". Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 4 (12) a008391. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a008391. ISSN 1943-0264. PMC 3504437. PMID 23071378.