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Learning from cerebellar lesions about the temporal and spatial aspects of saccadic control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

Alain Guillaume
Affiliation:
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 94: Espace et action, 69676 Bron, France{guillaume; goffart; pelisson}@lyon151.inserm.fr www.lyon151.inserm.fr/unités/094tov.html
Laurent Goffart
Affiliation:
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 94: Espace et action, 69676 Bron, France{guillaume; goffart; pelisson}@lyon151.inserm.fr www.lyon151.inserm.fr/unités/094tov.html
Denis Pélisson
Affiliation:
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 94: Espace et action, 69676 Bron, France{guillaume; goffart; pelisson}@lyon151.inserm.fr www.lyon151.inserm.fr/unités/094tov.html
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Abstract

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In the model proposed by Findlay & Walker, the programming of saccadic eye movements is achieved by two parallel processes, one dedicated to the coding of saccade metrics (Where) and the other controlling saccade initiation (When). One outcome of the “winner-take-all” characteristics of the salience map, the main node of the model, is an independence between the metrics and the latency of saccades. We report on some observations, made in the head-unrestrained cat under pathological conditions, of a correlation between accuracy and latency of saccadic gaze shifts. To account for such a correlation, the link between metrics specification (Where) and saccade triggering (When) should be amended in the model.

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Open Peer Commentary
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press