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Sensitivity of control parameters in a model of saccadic eye tracking and estimation of resultant nervous activity

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A model for the extraocular plant of the human visual eye tracking mechanisms is discussed. Its sensitivity to variation of controller signal nervous activity is studied in order to determine the type of activity that yields realistic simulations characteristic of typical saccadic eye movements.

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  1. Michael R. Clark

    Present address: SRI, 94025, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

    Michael R. Clark & Lawrence Stark

  2. Department of Physiological Optics, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

    Michael R. Clark & Lawrence Stark

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Clark, M.R., Stark, L. Sensitivity of control parameters in a model of saccadic eye tracking and estimation of resultant nervous activity. Bltn Mathcal Biology 38, 39–57 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02459539

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