Gaze changing behaviour in head restrained monkey.
The electromyographic activity of neck muscles and head torque were recorded in the alert, head-fixed rhesus monkeys together with the horizontal component of eye movements during pursuit movements, scanning movement and vestibular stimulation in darkness. A strong correlation between head torque and the horizontal component of eye position was demonstrated during these three different experimental situations. These conjugate head and eye movements are accompanied by a specific change in the timing of neck neuromuscular activation.
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000818:Animals; D003624:Darkness; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D006257:Head; D007103:Immobilization; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D009068:Movement; D009132:Muscles / Q000294:innervation*; D009333:Neck; D012149:Restraint, Physical