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Smooth eye movements evoked by electrical stimulation of the cat's superior colliculus.

Abstract：

:Head-fixed gaze shifts were evoked by electrical stimulation of the deeper layers of the cat superior colliculus (SC). After a short latency, saccades were triggered with kinematics similar to those of visually guided saccades. When electrical stimulation was maintained for more than 150-200 ms, postsaccadic smooth eye movements (SEMs) were observed. These movements were characterized by a period of approximately constant velocity following the evoked saccade. Depending on electrode position, a single saccade followed by a slow displacement or a "staircase" of saccades interspersed by SEMs were evoked. Mean velocity decreased with increasing deviation of the eye in the orbit in the direction of the movement. In the situation where a single evoked saccade was followed by a smooth movement, the duration of the latter depended on the duration of the stimulation train. In the situation where evoked saccades converged towards a restricted region of the visual field ("goal"-directed or craniocentric saccades), the SEMs were directed towards the centre of this region and their mean velocity decreased as the eye approached the goal. The direction of induced SEMs depended on the site of stimulation, as is the case for saccadic eye movements, and was not modified by stimulation parameters ("place" code). On the other hand, mean velocity of the movements depended on the site of stimulation and on the frequency and intensity of the current ("rate" code), as reported for saccades in the cat. The kinematics of these postsaccadic SEMs are similar to the kinematics of slow, postsaccadic correction observed during visually triggered gaze shifts of the alert cat. These results support the hypothesis that the SC is not exclusively implicated in the control of fast refixation of gaze but also in controlling postsaccadic conjugate slow eye movements in the cat.

journal_name

Exp Brain Res

journal_title

Experimental brain research

authors

Missal M,Lefèvre P,Delinte A,Crommelinck M,Roucoux A

doi

10.1007/BF00230420

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-01-01 00:00:00

pages

382-90

issue

eissn

0014-4819

issn

1432-1106

journal_volume

107

pub_type

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Smooth eye movements evoked by electrical stimulation of the cat's superior colliculus.