Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Search research articles

Related Experiment Videos

Shared target selection for combined version-vergence eye movements

V Chaturvedi¹, J A Gisbergen

¹Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Nijmegen, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Journal of Neurophysiology

|August 15, 1998

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

<i>Fusarium</i>: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell.

Studies in mycology·2021

Same author

Pan-resistant Candida auris isolates from the outbreak in New York are susceptible to ibrexafungerp (a glucan synthase inhibitor).

International journal of antimicrobial agents·2020

Same author

A Rapid and Automated Sample-to-Result Candida auris Real-Time PCR Assay for High-Throughput Testing of Surveillance Samples with the BD Max Open System.

Journal of clinical microbiology·2019

Same author

Dermatophytes and Dermatophytoses: A Thematic Overview of State of the Art, and the Directions for Future Research and Developments.

Mycopathologia·2017

Same author

Urinary haptoglobin, alpha-1 anti-chymotrypsin and retinol binding protein identified by proteomics as potential biomarkers for lupus nephritis.

Clinical and experimental immunology·2017

Same author

Additional synthesis on thiophene-containing trisubstituted methanes (TRSMs) as inhibitors of M. tuberculosis and 3D-QSAR studies.

SAR and QSAR in environmental research·2016

Primates

Area of Science:

Neuroscience and Vision Science
Investigating the neural mechanisms of eye movements and visual perception.

Background:

Primate eye movements involve conjugate saccades and vergence for gaze shifts.
Coordinated binocular movements suggest a shared target selection mechanism.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the cooperation between saccadic and vergence systems in target selection.
To examine binocular refixations in three-dimensional (3-D) space using double stimuli.

Main Methods:

Recorded binocular eye movements in seven subjects using the scleral coil technique.
Presented simultaneous target-nontarget stimuli in 3-D space, alternating with single targets.
Varied instructions to subjects, emphasizing speed or accuracy.

Related Experiment Videos

Main Results:

Saccadic response features (bistability, averaging, speed-accuracy trade-off) were observed in 3-D.
Vergence system consistently matched the saccadic system's target choice or averaging response.
High correlation found between saccadic and vergence target selection.

Conclusions:

A common target selection stage likely guides both saccadic and vergence systems.
This stage utilizes 3-D spatial information for amplitude computation.
Evidence supports coupled target selection for coordinated binocular gaze control.