Physiological and Pathological Aspects of Eye Movements

Section I: Gaze Displacement in Man.- Control of gaze in man: synthesis of pursuit, optokinetic and vestibulo-ocular systems.- Gaze fixation and pursuit in head free human infants.- Predictive mechanisms in human smooth pursuit movement.- Biphasic aftereffects of vestibular stimuli, optokinetic nystagmus and pursuit -Common integrators?.- The coordination of pursuit and saccadic eye movement in the scanning of a moving scene.- Dependence of saccadic prediction on asymmetrical periodic stimulus.- Can training be transferred from one oculomotor system to another?.- Acquired pendular nystagmus: characteristics, pathophysiology and pharmacological modification.- Eye movement disorders in multiple sclerosis and optic neuritis.- The measurement of eye movement using double magnetic induction.- Section II: Vestibulo-Ocular Refle.- The vertical vestibulo-ocular reflex.- Single unit recordings in the vestibular nuclei of the alert monkey related to the vertical vestibulo-ocular reflex (WOR).- The brain-stem matrix of the vestibulor-ocular reflex.- Compensatory eye movements in the monkey during high frequency sinusoidal rotations.- Concerning the linear acceleration input to the neural oculomotor control system in primates.- An intracellular HRP study of abducens motor and internuclear neurons in the alert squirrel monkey.- Section III: Optokinetic Refle.- Anatomy and physiology of the optokinetic pathways to the vestibular nuclei in the rat.- The role of the fovea and parafoveal regions in the control of “fast” optokinetic responses in the monkey.- The role of central and peripheral retina in eliciting optokinetic nystagmus in cats.- Possible contribution of the cortical areas 17, 18 and 19 to the optokinetic response in the cat.- Section IV: Effects of Lesions on VOR andOKN.- Influence of bilateral plugs of pairs of semicircular canals on optokinetic and vestibuloocular reflexes.- Vestibuloocular and optokinetic reflex compensation following hemilabyrinthectomy in the cat.- Gaze palsies after selective pontine lesions in monkeys.- The role of the primate flocculus during vestibular and optokinetic nystagmus: single cell recordings and lesion studies.- Effects of bilateral occipital lobectomies on eye movements in monkeys: preliminary observations.- Section V: Visuo-Vestibular Interaction.- Models of visual-vestibular interaction in oculomotor control: a review.- Neuronal responses in the parieto-insular vestibular cortex of alert Java monkeys (maccaca fascicularis).- Linear interaction of vestibular and optokinetic nystagmus.- The effects of retinal location and strobe rate of head-fixed visual targets on the suppression of vestibular nystagmus.- Section VI: Saccadic System.- A stochastic model of central processing in the generation of fixation saccades.- Responses of the saccadic system to sudden changes in target direction.- Spatio-temporal recoding in the generation of rapid eye movements.- Horizontal saccades induced by stimulation of the mesencephalic reticular formation.- Tectal control of vertical eye movements: a search for underlying neuronal circuits in the mesencephalon.- The localization of large and small motoneurons in the oculomotor nucleus of the monkey.- Section VII: Eye-Head Coordination.- Role of vestibular and neck reflexes in controlling eye and head position.- Modification of VOR slow and quick components by neck stimulation and turning sensation.- The relation of neck muscles activity to horizontal eye position in the alert cat. I: Head fixed.- The relation of neck muscles activity to horizontal eye position inthe alert cat. II: Head free.- Brain stem neurons mediating horizontal eye position signals to dorsal neck muscles of the alert cat.- Behavior of pontine cells during eye-head coordination: evidence of gaze shift coding by preoculomotor bursters.- Coordinated eye-head movements in the cat.- Dynamics of compensatory vestibular reflexes in the grassfrog, rana temporaria.- Visuo-spinal ataxia caused by disorders of eye movements.- Eye-head-hand coordination.- List of Participants.