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Neural Basis of Disjunctive Eye Movements
Author(s) -
KING W. M.,
ZHOU WU
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb02826.x
Subject(s) - basis (linear algebra) , eye movement , computer science , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , optometry , psychology , medicine , mathematics , geometry
A bstract : New evidence has challenged a widely accepted interpretation of Hering's law of equal innervation, which states that disjunctive saccades are produced by the linear addition of conjugate and vergence innervation commands produced by independent oculomotor subsystems. We hypothesize, instead, that saccades are produced by a monocular premotor control network. A model, based on this hypothesis and consistent with known brain‐stem anatomy, simulates realistic disjunctive saccades including initial and late slow vergence movements.