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1 Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213; 2 Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
Submitted 15 March 2002; accepted in final form 14 April 2003
Saccade accuracy is known to be maintained by adaptive mechanisms that progressively reduce any visual error that consistently exists when the saccade ends. We used an experimental paradigm known to induce adaptation of saccade size while monitoring the neural correlates of this adaptation. In rhesus monkeys where the medial and lateral recti of one eye were surgically weakened, patching the unoperated eye and forcing the monkey to use the weakened eye induced a gradual increase in saccade size in both eyes until the viewing, weak eye almost acquired the target in one step. Subsequent patching of the weakened eye gradually reversed the situation, so that the saccades in the viewing, normal eye decreased from an initial overshooting to normal. In the caudal fastigial nuclei of unadapted monkeys, neurons typically exhibit an early burst of spikes that is correlated with the onset of contraversive saccades and a later burst of spikes that is correlated with the termination of ipsiversive saccades. Comparing the discharges of the same fastigial neurons recorded before and during adaptation, this basic pattern did not change, but some parameters of the discharges did. The most consistent changes were in the latency of the burst for ipsiversive saccades, which was positively correlated with saccade size (1.28 ms/deg), and in the number of spikes associated with contraversive saccades, which was also positively correlated (0.55 spikes/deg). The former was more important when saccade size was decreasing, and the latter was more important when saccade size was increasing. Based on current knowledge of the anatomical connections of fastigial neurons, as well as on the effects of cerebellar lesions and on recordings in other structures, we argue that these changes are appropriate for causing the associated changes in saccade size.
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