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Plastic, Adaptive Changes in the Vestibuloocular Reflex and Their Role in Recovery from Labyrinthine Lesions

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Post-Lesion Neural Plasticity

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In order to maintain gaze stability in the face of perturbations that disturb head position, the brain must generate movements of the eyes in the head that compensate for movement of the head in space. Three sensorimotor mechanisms can contribute to these compensatory eye movements: the vestibuloocular reflex (VOR), the cervicoocular reflex (COR) and visually guided eye movements produced by the smooth pursuit (SP) and optokinetic (OK) systems. The dynamic and spatial properties of these four systems in normal subjects have been extensively studied (cf. Cohen et al. 1977, 1981; Lisberger et al. 1981; Peterson 1988; Robinson 1980, 1982). These studies form the basis for understanding the sensorimotor rearrangements that occur during recovery from labyrinthine lesions.

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    B. W. Peterson, J. F. Baker, V. Matsuo, S. A. Rude & X. N. Sahyouni

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Peterson, B.W., Baker, J.F., Matsuo, V., Rude, S.A., Sahyouni, X.N. (1988). Plastic, Adaptive Changes in the Vestibuloocular Reflex and Their Role in Recovery from Labyrinthine Lesions. In: Flohr, H. (eds) Post-Lesion Neural Plasticity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73849-4_25

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