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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. 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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  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.


Anatomy of the cerebral cortex of the human brain
Frontal lobe
Superolateral
Prefrontal
Precentral
Medial/inferior
Prefrontal
Precentral
Both
Parietal lobe
Superolateral
Medial/inferior
Both
Occipital lobe
Superolateral
Medial/inferior
Temporal lobe
Superolateral
Medial/inferior
Interlobar
sulci/fissures
Superolateral
Medial/inferior
Limbic lobe
Parahippocampal gyrus
Cingulate cortex/gyrus
Hippocampal formation
Other
Insular cortex
General
Some categorizations are approximations, and some Brodmann areas span gyri.
Optical illusions (list)
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