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J Neurophysiol 83: 3264-3276, 2000;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 83 No. 6 June 2000, pp. 3264-3276
Copyright ©2000 by the American Physiological Society

Three-Dimensional Vestibuloocular Reflex of the Monkey: Optimal Retinal Image Stabilization Versus Listing's Law

Hubert Misslisch and Bernhard J. M. Hess

Department of Neurology, University of Zurich, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland

Misslisch, Hubert and Bernhard J. M. Hess. Three-Dimensional Vestibuloocular Reflex of the Monkey: Optimal Retinal Image Stabilization Versus Listing's Law. J. Neurophysiol. 83: 3264-3276, 2000. If the rotational vestibuloocular reflex (VOR) were to achieve optimal retinal image stabilization during head rotations in three-dimensional space, it must turn the eye around the same axis as the head, with equal velocity but in the opposite direction. This optimal VOR strategy implies that the position of the eye in the orbit must not affect the VOR. However, if the VOR were to follow Listing's law, then the slow-phase eye rotation axis should tilt as a function of current eye position. We trained animals to fixate visual targets placed straight ahead or 20° up, down, left or right while being oscillated in yaw, pitch, and roll at 0.5-4 Hz, either with or without a full-field visual background. Our main result was that the visually assisted VOR of normal monkeys invariantly rotated the eye around the same axis as the head during yaw, pitch, and roll (optimal VOR). In the absence of a visual background, eccentric eye positions evoked small axis tilts of slow phases in normal animals. Under the same visual condition, a prominent effect of eye position was found during roll but not during pitch or yaw in animals with low torsional and vertical gains following plugging of the vertical semicircular canals. This result was in accordance with a model incorporating a specific compromise between an optimal VOR and a VOR that perfectly obeys Listing's law. We conclude that the visually assisted VOR of the normal monkey optimally stabilizes foveal as well as peripheral retinal images. The finding of optimal VOR performance challenges a dominant role of plant mechanics and supports the notion of noncommutative operations in the oculomotor control system.




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