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Learning in the oculomotor system: from molecules to behavior
1Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Sherman Fairchild Building, Room 251, Stanford, California 94305, USA. jraymond@phy.ucsf.edu
Abstract:
A combination of system-level and cellular-molecular approaches is moving studies of oculomotor learning rapidly toward the goal of linking synaptic plasticity at specific sites in oculomotor circuits with changes in the signal-processing functions of those circuits, and, ultimately, with changes in eye movement behavior. Recent studies of saccadic adaptation illustrate how careful behavioral analysis can provide constraints on the neural loci of plasticity. Studies of vestibulo-ocular adaptation are beginning to examine the molecular pathways contributing to this form of cerebellum-dependent learning.
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