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J Neurophysiol 86: 2323-2329, 2001;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 86 No. 5 November 2001, pp. 2323-2329
Copyright ©2001 by the American Physiological Society

Ocular Responses to Head Rotations During Mirror Viewing

Yanning Han,2 Jeffrey T. Somers,2 Jae I. Kim,1 Arun N. Kumar,2 and R. John Leigh1,2,3

 1Department of Neurology,  2Department of Biomedical Engineering, and  3Department of Neurosciences, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106

Han, Yanning, Jeffrey T. Somers, Jae I. Kim, Arun N. Kumar, and R. John Leigh. Ocular Responses to Head Rotations During Mirror Viewing. J. Neurophysiol. 86: 2323-2329, 2001. The gain of the human vestibuloocular reflex (VOR) is influenced by the proximity of the object of regard. In six human subjects, we measured the eye rotations induced by passive, sinusoidal, horizontal head rotations at 2.0 Hz during binocular fixation of a stationary far target at 7 m; a stationary target close to the subject's near point of fixation (<15 cm); and the bridge of the subject's own nose, viewed through a mirror positioned so that, for each subject, the angle of vergence was similar to that during viewing of the near target. The median gain of compensatory eye movements for the group of subjects during far viewing was 0.99 (range 0.80-1.04), during near viewing was 1.21 (range 0.88-1.47), and during mirror viewing was 0.85 (range 0.71-1.01). The gain during near and mirror viewing was significantly different for each subject (P < 0.001) even though the vergence angles were similar. The lower gain values during mirror viewing can be attributed to the geometric relationship between the head rotation, the position of the eyes in the head, and the movement of the subject's virtual image in the mirror. To determine whether visually mediated eye movements were responsible for the observed gain values, we conducted a control experiment in which subjects were rotated using a sum-of-sines stimulus that minimized the effects of predictive visual tracking; differences of gain values between near- and mirror-viewing conditions were similar to those during rotation at 2 Hz. We conclude that, in these experiments, target proximity and vergence angle were not the key determinants of gain of the visuo-vestibular response during head rotation while viewing a near target but that contextual cues from motion vision were more important in generating the appropriate response.




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