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Effects of eye position on electrically evoked saccades: a theoretical note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2009

James T. McIlwain
James T. McIlwain
Affiliation:
Section of Neurobiology, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence
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Abstract

The trajectories of saccadic eye movements evoked electrically from many brain structures are dependent to some degree on the initial position of the eye. Under certain conditions, likely to occur in stimulation experiments, local feedback models of the saccadic system can yield eye movements which behave in this way. The models in question assume that an early processing stage adds an internal representation of eye position to retinal error to yield a signal representing target position with respect to the head. The saccadic system is driven by the difference between this signal and one representing the current position of the eye. Albano & Wurtz (1982) pointed out that lesions perturbing the computation of eye position with respect to the head can result in initial position dependence of visually evoked saccades. It is shown here that position-dependent saccades will also result if electrical stimulation evokes a signal equivalent to retinal error but fails to effect a complete addition of eye position to this signal. Also, when multiple or staircase saccades are produced, as during long stimulus trains, they will have identical directions but decrease progressively in amplitude by a factor related to the fraction of added eye position.

Keywords

SaccadesEye positionGoal directed
Type
Short Communications
Information
Visual Neuroscience , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , March 1988 , pp. 239 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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