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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 79 No. 4 April 1998,
pp. 1942-1958
Copyright ©1998 The American Physiological Society
Espace et Action, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U94, 69500 Bron, France
Goffart, Laurent and Denis Pélisson. Orienting gaze shifts during muscimol inactivation of caudal fastigial nucleus in the cat. I. Gaze dysmetria. J. Neurophysiol. 79: 1942-1958, 1998. The cerebellar control of orienting behavior toward visual targets was studied in the head-unrestrained cat by analyzing the deficits of saccadic gaze shifts after unilateral injection of muscimol in the caudal part of the fastigial nucleus (cFN). Gaze shifts are rendered strongly inaccurate by muscimol cFN inactivation. The characteristics of gaze dysmetria are specific to the direction of the movement with respect to the inactivated cFN. Gaze shifts directed toward the injected side are hypermetric. Irrespective of their starting position, all these ipsiversive gaze shifts overshoot the target by a constant horizontal error (or bias) to terminate at a "shifted goal" location. In particular, when gaze is directed initially at the future target's location, a response with an amplitude corresponding to the bias moves gaze away from the actual target. Additionally, when gaze is initially in between the target and this shifted goal location, the response again is directed toward the latter. This deficit of ipsiversive gaze shifts is characterized by a consistent increase in the y intercept of the relationship between horizontal gaze amplitude and horizontal retinal error. Slight increases in the slope sometimes are observed as well. Contraversive gaze shifts are markedly hypometric and, in contrast to ipsiversive responses, they do not converge onto a shifted goal but rather underestimate target eccentricity in a proportional way. This is reflected by a decrease in the slope of the relationship between horizontal gaze amplitude and horizontal retinal error, with, for some experiments, a moderate change in the y-intercept value. The same deficits are observed in a different setup, which permits the control of initial gaze position. Correction saccades rarely are observed when visual feedback is eliminated on initiation of the primary orienting response; instead, they occur frequently when the target remains visible. Like the primary contraversive saccades, they are hypometric and the ever-decreasing series of three to five correction saccades reduces the gaze fixation error but often does not completely eliminate it. We measured the position of gaze after the final correction saccade and found that fixation of a visible target is still shifted toward the inactivated cFN by 4.9 ± 2.4°. This fixation offset is correlated to, but on average 54% smaller than, the hypermetric bias of ipsiversive responses measured in the same experiments. In conclusion, the cFN contributes to the control of saccadic shifts of the visual axis toward a visual target. The hypometria of contraversive gaze shifts suggests a cFN role in adjusting a gain in the translation of retinal signals into gaze motor commands. On the basis of the convergence of ipsiversive gaze shifts onto a shifted goal, the straightness of gaze trajectory during these responses and the production of misdirected or inappropriately initiated responses toward this shifted goal, we propose that the cFN influences the processes that specify the goal of ipsiversive gaze shifts.
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