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Eye Movements and the Zonal Structure of the Rabbit Flocculus

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The Cerebellum Revisited

Abstract

The flocculus is part of the compensatory eye movement control system that can stabilize gaze during head rotations about any axis in space. Therefore, understanding signal processing in the flocculus requires knowledge of how the multi-dimensionality of these eye movements is represented. Studies of the messages carried by the visual climbing fibers (CFs) as well as studies of the eye movements and eye muscle activity elicited by electrical stimulation suggest that the basis of this representation is the zonal structure of the flocculus.

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  1. Department of Physiology/Biophysics, New York University Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, 10016, New York, NY, USA

    Rodolfo Llinás

  2. INSERM U-106, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France

    Constantino Sotelo M.D., Ph.D.

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Simpson, J.I., Van der Steen, J., Tan, J. (1992). Eye Movements and the Zonal Structure of the Rabbit Flocculus. In: Llinás, R., Sotelo, C. (eds) The Cerebellum Revisited. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2840-0_13

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