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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 83 No. 1 January 2000, pp. 630-637
Copyright ©2000 by the American Physiological Society

Comparing Extraocular Motoneuron Discharges During Head-Restrained Saccades and Head-Unrestrained Gaze Shifts

Kathleen E. Cullen,1 Henrietta L. Galiana,2 and Pierre A. Sylvestre1

Departments of  1Physiology and  2Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada

Cullen, Kathleen E., Henrietta L. Galiana, and Pierre A. Sylvestre. Comparing Extraocular Motoneuron Discharges During Head-Restrained Saccades and Head-Unrestrained Gaze Shifts. J. Neurophysiol. 83: 630-637, 2000. Burst neurons (BNs) in the paramedian pontine reticular formation provide the primary input to the extraocular motoneurons (MNs) during head-restrained saccades and combined eye-head gaze shifts. Prior studies have shown that BNs carry eye movement-related signals during saccades and carry head as well as eye movement-related signals during gaze shifts. Therefore MNs receive signals related to head motion during gaze shifts, yet they solely drive eye motion. Here we addressed whether the relationship between MN firing rates and eye movements is influenced by the additional premotor signals present during gaze shifts. Neurons in the abducens nucleus of monkeys were first studied during saccades made with the head stationary. We then recorded from the same neurons during voluntary combined eye-head gaze shifts. We conclude that the activity of MNs, in contrast to that of BNs, is related to eye motion by the same dynamic relationship during head-restrained saccades and head-unrestrained gaze shifts. In addition, we show that a standard metric-based analysis [i.e., counting the number of spikes (NOS) in a burst] yields misleading results when applied to the same data set. We argue that this latter approach fails because it does not properly consider the system's dynamics or the strong interactions between eye and head motion.




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