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Woo Young Choi1, Daniel Guitton
1Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada.
Abstract:
A prominent hypothesis in motor control is that endpoint errors are minimized because motor commands are updated in real time via internal feedback loops. We investigated in monkey whether orienting saccadic gaze shifts made in the dark with coordinated eye-head movements are controlled by feedback. We recorded from superior colliculus fixation neurons (SCFNs) that fired tonically during fixation and were silent during gaze shifts. When we briefly (

