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To direct the line of sight toward an interesting target in space, a combination of eye and head movement is used under natural conditions. The accurate coordination of such a “head-free” gaze movement requires information about the ongoing head movement. It is not yet understood if this information is derived from a signal originating in the vestibular apparatus. To address this problem, we compared normal gaze shifts in the head-free primate with gaze shifts after the vestibular signal was removed by plugging both horizontal semicircular canals.
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Siebold, C., Ling, L., Phillips, J., Newlands, S., Fuchs, A.F., Mergner, T. (1995). Eye-Head Coordination Before and After Canal Plugging in Monkey. In: Mergner, T., Hlavačka, F. (eds) Multisensory Control of Posture. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1931-7_30
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