Information Processing Underlying Gaze Control

PrefaceSection I: Morphology and Physiology of Extraocular Motor Nuclei 1. The Anatomy of the Vestibulo-Ocular System in Lampreys 2. Excitatory Amino Acid Receptors and Synaptic Transmission in Rat Extraocular Motoneurons 3. Effects of the APV Injection into the Abducens and the Prepositus Hypoglossi Nuclei on the Generation of Eye Position Signal 4. Lateral Rectus Muscle Paralysis Induced by Botulinum Toxin: Effects on Abducens Motoneuron Discharge Characteristics 5. Differential Response of Abducens Intemuclear Neurons to Selective Target Removal and Electrolytic Lesion in Adult CatsSection II: Anatomo-Functional Organization of the Saccadic System 6. Compensation for Perturbations of Gaze and Role of Vestibular Signals in Gaze Control 7. On the 3-Dimensional Rapid Eye Movement Generator in the Monkey 8. Changes of Listing's Plane under Physiological and Pathological Conditions 9. On the Role of Goldfish Optic Tectum in the Generation of Eye Movements 10. Collicular Control of Saccades by the Prepositus Feedback Loop 11. Saccadic Reaction times to Fully Predictive and Random Visual Targets during Gap and Non-Gap Paradigms 12. Positron Emission Tomographic Studies of Saccadic Eye Movements in Healthy Humans 13. A Neural Computation: Spatial to Temporal Transformation 14. Nonlinearities in the Saccadic System and Efferent Feedback to the Collicular Motor MapSection III: Vestibular and Otolithic Systems 15. Neuroactive Amino Acids in Vestibular Afferents 16. Pharmacological Properties of Medial Vestibular Neurones in the Guinea-Pig: An In Vitro Study 17. Type I Second-Order Medial Vestibular Neurons in the Head-Fixed Guinea-Pig during Alertness and following Adaptation 18. Input Patterns from Six Semicircular Canals to Neck Motoneurons of the Multifidus and the Semispinalis Muscle Groups 19. Inhibitory Vertical Canal Inputs Mediated by Spinal Commissural Neurons to Contralateral Neck Motoneurons 20. Vestibular and Spinal Plasticity after Hemilabyrinthectomy in the Frog 21. Does Unilateral Vestibular Deafferentation Affect Listing's Plane? 22. The Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex and Optical FlowSection IV: Optokinetic and Smooth Pursuit Systems 23. Segregation of Retinal and Visual Cortex Projections to the Pretectum, an Ultrastructural Tracing Study in Pigmented Rats 24. A Cortico-Ponto-Cerebellar Pathway for Smooth-Pursuit Eye Movements 25. Stimulus Specificity in the Primate Optokinetic System 26. When the Two Eyes See Patterns of Unequal Size They Produce Saccades of Unequal Amplitude 27. Similar Changes in the Latency of Pursuit and Saccadic Eye Movements Observed with the "Gap Paradigm" 28. A Model of Predictive Processes in Oculomotor Control Based on Experimental Results in HumansSection V: Other Sensory Systems Involved in the Control of the Oculomotor Function 29. Anatomical Arguments for a Functional Participation of the Trigeminal System in the Control of Head-Neck Posture 30. Are Extraocular Afferent Signals Involved in Eye-Head Coupling Processes? 31. Extraocular Muscle Afferent Signals and the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex 32. Conjugate and Disconjugate Contributions to Bifoveal Fixations Studied from a 3D Perspective 33. Auditory-Evoked Saccades in Two Dimensions: Dynamical Characteristics, Influence of Eye Position and Sound Source SpectrumSection VI: Role of Cerebellum in the Genesis and Control of Eye Movements 34. Vestibular and Cerebellar Connections Subserving Eye Movements 35. The Cholinergic Mechanism in the Information Processing Underlying Gaze Control: Ultrastructure of Nicotinic and Muscarinic Receptor Protein in the Rabbit Flocculus 36. First Steps in an Electrophysiological "Input-Output" Approach of the Horizontal Operational Unit of the Flocculus 37. Discharge Patterns of Cerebellar Nuclear Neurons Related to Eye and Head Movements in the Alert Cat 38.