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Blink-perturbed saccades in monkey. II. Superior colliculus activity.

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:Trigeminal reflex blinks evoked near the onset of a saccade cause profound spatial-temporal perturbations of the saccade that are typically compensated in mid-flight. This paper investigates the influence of reflex blinks on the discharge properties of saccade-related burst neurons (SRBNs) in intermediate and deep layers of the monkey superior colliculus (SC). Twenty-nine SRBNs, recorded in three monkeys, were tested in the blink-perturbation paradigm. We report that the air puff stimuli, used to elicit blinks, resulted in a short-latency ( approximately 10 ms) transient suppression of saccade-related SRBN activity. Shortly after this suppression (within 10-30 ms), all neurons resumed their activity, and their burst discharge then continued until the perturbed saccade ended near the extinguished target. This was found regardless whether the compensatory movement was into the cell's movement field or not. In the limited number of trials where no compensation occurred, the neurons typically stopped firing well before the end of the eye movement. Several aspects of the saccade-related activity could be further quantified for 25 SRBNs. It appeared that 1) the increase in duration of the high-frequency burst was well correlated with the (two- to threefold) increase in duration of the perturbed movement. 2) The number of spikes in the burst for control and perturbed saccades was quite similar. On average, the number of spikes increased only 14%, whereas the mean firing rate in the burst decreased by 52%. 3) An identical number of spikes were obtained between control and perturbed responses when burst and postsaccadic activity were both included in the spike count. 4) The decrease of the mean firing rate in the burst was well correlated with the decrease in the velocity of perturbed saccades. 5) Monotonic relations between instantaneous firing rate and dynamic motor error were obtained for control responses but not for perturbed responses. And 6) the high-frequency burst of SRBNs with short-lead and long-lead presaccadic activity (also referred to as burst and buildup neurons, respectively) showed very similar features. Our findings show that blinking interacts with the saccade premotor system already at the level of the SC. The data also indicate that a neural mechanism, rather than passive elastic restoring forces within the oculomotor plant, underlies the compensation for blink-related perturbations. We propose that these interactions occur downstream from the motor SC and that the latter may encode the desired displacement vector of the eyes by sending an approximately fixed number of spikes to the brainstem saccadic burst generator.

journal_name

J Neurophysiol

journal_title

Journal of neurophysiology

authors

Goossens HH,Van Opstal AJ

doi

10.1152/jn.2000.83.6.3430

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-06-01 00:00:00

pages

3430-52

issue

eissn

0022-3077

issn

1522-1598

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Blink-perturbed saccades in monkey. II. Superior colliculus activity.