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J Neurophysiol (February 9, 2005). doi:10.1152/jn.00814.2004
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Submitted on August 10, 2004
Accepted on February 3, 2005

Integrator function in the oculomotor system is dependent on sensory context

Wilbur W. Chan1 and Henrietta L. Galiana1*

1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Henrietta.Galiana{at}McGill.ca.

The oculomotor integrator is usually defined by the characteristics of decay in gaze after saccades to flashed targets or after spontaneous gaze shifts in the dark. This property is then presumed fixed and accessed by other ocular reflexes, such as the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) or pursuit, in order to shape motoneural signals. An alternate view of this integrator proposes that it relies on a distributed network, which should change its properties with sensory-motor context. Here we demonstrate in ten normal subjects, that the function of integration can vary in an individual with the imposed test. The value of the time constant for the decay of gaze holding in the dark can be significantly different from the effective integration time constant estimated from VOR responses. Hence analytical tools for the study of dynamics in ocular reflexes must allow for non-ideal and labile integrator function. The mechanisms underlying such labile integration remain to be explored, and may be different in various ocular reflexes (e.g. visual vs vestibular).




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