Behavior of preoculomotor burst neurons during eye-head coordination.
Single-unit recordings from the pontine reticular formation in four monkeys have shown the presence of two classes of short-lead burst neurons firing during coordinated eye-head movements. The activity of one class showed a correlation with the size of saccadic movements performed during head movements; the other showed a correlation between firing pattern and the combined eye-head movement. Anatomical reconstructions of the recording sites point to an intermingling of the two cell types.
D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006257:Head; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D011149:Pons / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D012154:Reticular Formation / Q000502:physiology*; D012438:Saccades