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Distinct Short-Term and Long-Term Adaptation to Reduce Saccade Size in Monkey

Department of Biological Structure, and Regional Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Submitted 1 November 2005; accepted in final form 18 April 2006

In monkeys, saccades that repeatedly overshoot their targets adapt to become smaller by the time the monkey has made 1,000–2,000 saccades. In life, adaptation must keep movements accurate for long periods of time. Previous work describes only saccade adaptation that occurs within a few hours. Here we describe long-term saccade adaptation elicited in three monkeys by 19 days of training. Each day a monkey made saccades to track 16° leftward and rightward target movements. During saccades, the target stepped back toward its starting position 6.4° (40%) in two monkeys or 8° (50%) in the third. After each day's adaptation, we blindfolded the monkey with goggles and returned it to its cage overnight. We found that adapting saccades for 19 days elicited significantly larger, long-lasting reduction in saccade size than did adapting for only 1 day. Further, after 19 days of adaptation we could elicit additional, apparently normal, short-term reduction in saccade size by increasing the size of the intra-saccade target movement. In contrast, we could elicit only small additional size reduction after only 1 day of adaptation. A simple model using separate short- and long-term adaptation mechanisms can reproduce many of the features of saccade gain exhibited by monkeys during a 19-day adaptation. We conclude that there is a long-term saccade-adaptation mechanism that is distinct from the well-characterized short-term system and that this newly recognized system is responsible for long-term maintenance of saccade accuracy.

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