title: Cerebellar influence in oculomotor phase-transition behavior.
abstract: The cerebellum plays an important role in predicting and producing regularly timed motor responses. In the present report, we examined the performance of SCA6 cerebellar patients and normal controls in a simple saccade tracking task. Our results imply that the cerebellum plays a role in maintaining predictive motor behavior once it has been established.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 720 Rutland Avenue, 606 Taylor Building, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. wjoiner@bme.jhu.edu
authors.forename: Wilsaan M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Joiner
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shelhamer
authors.forename: Sarah H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Ying
mesh_terms: D002531:Cerebellum / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009039:Motion Perception; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011930:Reaction Time; D012016:Reference Values; D012438:Saccades; D020754:Spinocerebellar Ataxias / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology*; D018911:Trinucleotide Repeats