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Neurodynamics of the Oculomotor System: Space-Time Recoding and a Non-Equilibrium Phase Transition

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Synergetics of the Brain

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Abstract

The central problem in biology is to connect structure and mechanisms with function and processes. The complexity of the primate nervous system is so overwhelming that no detailed understanding of the entire system is possible on the level of single neurons. Instead one hopes that by studying subsystems of smaller complexity, which can be associated with a clear purpose, one can reach interesting and clinically applicable conclusions about the modes of operation of the human central nervous system. In this line the oculomotor system has been rather successfully investigated in the past decade by a number of groups (for a recent survey: [1–7] and the conference proceedings [8–13]).

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Abbreviations

BT:

burst-tonic (neuron)

CB:

cerebellum

DSC:

deep layers of the superior colliculus

EEG:

electroencephalogram

FEF:

frontal eye fields

FEM:

fast eye movements

h:

horizontal

INT:

integrator

IO:

inferior oblique

IR:

inferior rectus

L:

long-lead (burster)

l:

left

LR:

lateral rectus

M:

medium-lead (burster)

MN:

motoleuron

MR:

medial rectus

NRP:

nucleus raphe pontis

P:

pause (neuron)

PPRF:

paramedian pontine reticular formation

r:

right

RET:

retina

RMRF:

rostral mesencephalic reticular formation

S:

sleep

SEM:

slow eye movements

SO:

superior oblique

SR:

superior rectus

USC:

upper layers of the superior colliculus

v:

vertical

VG:

vestibular ganglion

VIX:

visual cortex

VN:

vestibular nucleus

VOR:

vestibulo-ocular reflex

W:

wakefulness

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  1. Physics Department, E.T.H., CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland

    K. Hepp

  2. Neurology Department, University, CH-8091, Zürich, Switzerland

    V. Henn

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  1. Institut für Physiologie, Medizinische Hochschule Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-2400, Lübeck, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Erol Başar

  2. Abteilung Neurobiologie, Universität Bremen, NW 2, D-2800, Bremen 33, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Hans Flohr

  3. Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57/IV, D-7000, Stuttgart 80, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Hermann Haken

  4. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

    Arnold J. Mandell

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Hepp, K., Henn, V. (1983). Neurodynamics of the Oculomotor System: Space-Time Recoding and a Non-Equilibrium Phase Transition. In: Başar, E., Flohr, H., Haken, H., Mandell, A.J. (eds) Synergetics of the Brain. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69421-9_11

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