scholarly journals Effects of optical pitch on oculomotor control and the perception of target elevation

1995 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm M. Cohen ◽  
Sheldon M. Ebenholtz ◽  
Barry J. Linder
Keyword(s):  
Oculomotor Control ◽  
Target Elevation ◽  
Optical Pitch

scholarly journals Erratum to: Effects of optical pitch on oculomotor control and the perception of target elevation

1995 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 737-737
Author(s):  
M. M. Cohen ◽  
S. M. Ebenholtz ◽  
B. J. Linder
Keyword(s):  
Oculomotor Control ◽  
Target Elevation ◽  
Optical Pitch

The amplitude transition function and the manual and oculomotor control systems.

1988 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas C. Barrett ◽  
Denis J. Glencross
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Transition Function ◽  
Oculomotor Control

The effect of expectations on slow oculomotor control—II. Single target displacements

1979 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 633-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Kowler ◽  
Robert M. Steinman
Keyword(s):  
Oculomotor Control ◽  
Single Target

scholarly journals Neural Basis of Visually Guided Head Movements Studied With fMRI

2003 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 2516-2527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Petit ◽  
Michael S. Beauchamp
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Head Movement ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Posterior Part ◽  
Vestibular Stimulation ◽  
Head Movements ◽  
Oculomotor Control ◽  
Imaging Studies ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
Temporoparietal Junction

We used event-related fMRI to measure brain activity while subjects performed saccadic eye, head, and gaze movements to visually presented targets. Two distinct patterns of response were observed. One set of areas was equally active during eye, head, and gaze movements and consisted of the superior and inferior subdivisions of the frontal eye fields, the supplementary eye field, the intraparietal sulcus, the precuneus, area MT in the lateral occipital sulcus and subcortically in basal ganglia, thalamus, and the superior colliculus. These areas have been previously observed in functional imaging studies of human eye movements, suggesting that a common set of brain areas subserves both oculomotor and head movement control in humans, consistent with data from single-unit recording and microstimulation studies in nonhuman primates that have described overlapping eye- and head-movement representations in oculomotor control areas. A second set of areas was active during head and gaze movements but not during eye movements. This set of areas included the posterior part of the planum temporale and the cortex at the temporoparietal junction, known as the parieto-insular vestibular cortex (PIVC). Activity in PIVC has been observed during imaging studies of invasive vestibular stimulation, and we confirm its role in processing the vestibular cues accompanying natural head movements. Our findings demonstrate that fMRI can be used to study the neural basis of head movements and show that areas that control eye movements also control head movements. In addition, we provide the first evidence for brain activity associated with vestibular input produced by natural head movements as opposed to invasive caloric or galvanic vestibular stimulation.

High-level aspects of oculomotor control during viewing of natural-task images

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roxanne L. Canosa ◽  
Jeff B. Pelz ◽  
Neil R. Mennie ◽  
Joseph Peak
Keyword(s):  
Oculomotor Control ◽  
High Level

scholarly journals Frontal eye field microstimulation induces task-dependent gamma oscillations in the lateral intraparietal area

2012 ◽  
Vol 108 (5) ◽  
pp. 1392-1402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsie Premereur ◽  
Wim Vanduffel ◽  
Pieter R. Roelfsema ◽  
Peter Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Attention ◽  
Field Potential ◽  
Gamma Oscillations ◽  
Oculomotor Control ◽  
Saccade Target ◽  
Frontal Eye Field ◽  
Alpha Power ◽  
Lateral Intraparietal Area ◽  
Electrical Microstimulation ◽  
Gamma Power

Macaque frontal eye fields (FEF) and the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) are high-level oculomotor control centers that have been implicated in the allocation of spatial attention. Electrical microstimulation of macaque FEF elicits functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activations in area LIP, but no study has yet investigated the effect of FEF microstimulation on LIP at the single-cell or local field potential (LFP) level. We recorded spiking and LFP activity in area LIP during weak, subthreshold microstimulation of the FEF in a delayed-saccade task. FEF microstimulation caused a highly time- and frequency-specific, task-dependent increase in gamma power in retinotopically corresponding sites in LIP: FEF microstimulation produced a significant increase in LIP gamma power when a saccade target appeared and remained present in the LIP receptive field (RF), whereas less specific increases in alpha power were evoked by FEF microstimulation for saccades directed away from the RF. Stimulating FEF with weak currents had no effect on LIP spike rates or on the gamma power during memory saccades or passive fixation. These results provide the first evidence for task-dependent modulations of LFPs in LIP caused by top-down stimulation of FEF. Since the allocation and disengagement of spatial attention in visual cortex have been associated with increases in gamma and alpha power, respectively, the effects of FEF microstimulation on LIP are consistent with the known effects of spatial attention.

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