title: Interactions between gaze-evoked blinks and gaze shifts in monkeys.
abstract: Rapid eyelid closure, or a blink, often accompanies head-restrained and head-unrestrained gaze shifts. This study examines the interactions between such gaze-evoked blinks and gaze shifts in monkeys. Blink probability increases with gaze amplitude and at a faster rate for head-unrestrained movements. Across animals, blink likelihood is inversely correlated with the average gaze velocity of large-amplitude control movements. Gaze-evoked blinks induce robust perturbations in eye velocity. Peak and average velocities are reduced, duration is increased, but accuracy is preserved. The temporal features of the perturbation depend on factors such as the time of blink relative to gaze onset, inherent velocity kinematics of control movements, and perhaps initial eye-in-head position. Although variable across animals, the initial effect is a reduction in eye velocity, followed by a reacceleration that yields two or more peaks in its waveform. Interestingly, head velocity is not attenuated; instead, it peaks slightly later and with a larger magnitude. Gaze latency is slightly reduced on trials with gaze-evoked blinks, although the effect was more variable during head-unrestrained movements; no reduction in head latency is observed. Preliminary data also demonstrate a similar perturbation of gaze-evoked blinks during vertical saccades. The results are compared with previously reported effects of reflexive blinks (evoked by air-puff delivered to one eye or supraorbital nerve stimulation) and discussed in terms of effects of blinks on saccadic suppression, neural correlates of the altered eye velocity signals, and implications on the hypothesis that the attenuation in eye velocity is produced by a head movement command.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Center for Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. neg8@pitt.edu
authors.forename: Neeraj J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Gandhi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D001767:Blinking / Q000502:physiology*; D005143:Eyelids / Q000294:innervation; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D019416:Head Movements / Q000502:physiology; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology
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