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Cerebellar Influence in Oculomotor Phase‐Transition Behavior
Author(s) -
JOINER WILSAAN M.,
SHELHAMER MARK,
YING SARAH H.
Publication year - 2005
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 - 10.1196/annals.1325.062
Subject(s) - oculomotor nerve , phase (matter) , transition (genetics) , phase transition , oculomotor nucleus , neuroscience , physics , psychology , chemistry , midbrain , condensed matter physics , central nervous system , quantum mechanics , biochemistry , gene
A bstract : The cerebellum plays an important role in predicting and producing regularly timed motor responses. In the present report, we examined the performance of SCA6 cerebellar patients and normal controls in a simple saccade tracking task. Our results imply that the cerebellum plays a role in maintaining predictive motor behavior once it has been established.

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