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Transformation of control signals for saccadic eye movements

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Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 1991)

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Abstract

The topography of extrapersonal space is reflected in the functional organization of various neural structures. A model example is the eye-movement control regions in brain stem and cortex. Parameters of a saccade are here represented in spatial distribution of activity in topographically arranged population of neurons. The transformation of this spatial code into the commands for extraocular muscles remains an open question. In the following paper a first step in this transformation is suggested: a neural wiring scheme for computation of the horizontal and vertical component of the movement from the motor map. This scheme is an implementation of existing black-box models into a physiologically plausible neural circuitry. Results of computer simulations are compared with experimental data to confirm the plausibility of the model.

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  1. Institute of Animal Physiology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 900 28, Ivanka pri Dunaji, Czechoslovakia

    Boris Breznen

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Breznen, B. (1991). Transformation of control signals for saccadic eye movements. In: Prieto, A. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks. IWANN 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 540. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035883

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