title: A new linear muscle fiber model for neural control of saccades.
abstract: A comprehensive model for the control of horizontal saccades is presented using a new muscle fiber model for the lateral and medial rectus muscles. The importance of this model is that each muscle fiber has a separate neural input. This model is robust and accounts for the neural activity for both large and small saccades. The muscle fiber model consists of serial sequences of muscle fibers in parallel with other serial sequences of muscle fibers. Each muscle fiber is described by a parallel combination of a linear length tension element, viscous element and active state tension generator.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, 260 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA. jenderle@engr.uconn.edu
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Enderle
authors.forename: Daniel A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Sierra
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D008954:Models, Biological; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D018485:Muscle Fibers, Skeletal / Q000502:physiology*; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000166:cytology*; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology*