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J Neurophysiol 80: 2785-2789, 1998;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 80 No. 5 November 1998, pp. 2785-2789
Copyright ©1998 The American Physiological Society

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Human Head-Free Gaze Saccades to Targets Flashed Before Gaze-Pursuit Are Spatially Accurate

Troy M. Herter and Daniel Guitton

Montreal Neurological Institute and Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada

Herter, Troy M. and Daniel Guitton. Human head-free gaze saccades to targets flashed before gaze-pursuit are spatially accurate. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 2785-2789, 1998. Previous studies have shown that accurate saccades can be generated, in the dark, that compensate for movements of the visual axis that result from movements of either the eyes alone or the head alone that intervene between target presentation and saccade onset. We have carried out experiments with human subjects to test whether gaze saccades (gaze = eye-in-space = eye-in-head + head-in-space) can be generated that compensate for smooth pursuit movements of gaze that intervene between target onset and gaze-saccade onset. In both head-unrestrained (head-free) and -restrained (head-fixed) conditions, subjects were asked to make gaze shifts, in the dark, to the remembered location of a briefly flashed target. On most trials, during the memory period, the subjects carried out intervening head-free gaze pursuit or head-fixed ocular pursuit along the horizontal meridian. On the remaining (control) trials, subjects did not carry out intervening pursuit movements during the memory period; this was the classical memory-guided saccade task. We found that the subjects accurately compensated for intervening movements of the visual axis in both the head-free and head-fixed conditions. We conclude that the human gaze-motor system is able to monitor on-line changes in gaze position and add them to initial retinal error, to program spatially accurate gaze saccades.




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