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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-5-23
pubmed:abstractText
Motor learning was induced in the translational vestibulo-ocular reflex (TVOR) when monkeys were repeatedly subjected to a brief (0.5 sec) head translation while they tried to maintain binocular fixation on a visual target for juice rewards. If the target was world-fixed, the initial eye speed of the TVOR gradually increased; if the target was head-fixed, the initial eye speed of the TVOR gradually decreased. The rate of learning acquisition was very rapid, with a time constant of approximately 100 trials, which was equivalent to <1 min of accumulated stimulation. These learned changes were consolidated over >or=1 d without any reinforcement, indicating induction of long-term synaptic plasticity. Although the learning generalized to targets with different viewing distances and to head translations with different accelerations, it was highly specific for the particular combination of head motion and evoked eye movement associated with the training. For example, it was specific to the modality of the stimulus (translation vs rotation) and the direction of the evoked eye movement in the training. Furthermore, when one eye was aligned with the heading direction so that it remained motionless during training, learning was not expressed in this eye, but only in the other nonaligned eye. These specificities show that the learning sites are neither in the sensory nor the motor limb of the reflex but in the sensory-motor transformation stage of the reflex. The dependence of the learning on both head motion and evoked eye movement suggests that Hebbian learning may be one of the underlying cellular mechanisms.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1529-2401
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
4288-98
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Behavior, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Conditioning (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Eye Movements, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Generalization (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Learning, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Long-Term Potentiation, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Macaca mulatta, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Memory, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Motion Perception, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Motor Activity, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Motor Skills, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Neuronal Plasticity, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Ocular Physiological Phenomena, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Photic Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Psychomotor Performance, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Pursuit, Smooth, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Reflex, Vestibulo-Ocular, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Space Perception, pubmed-meshheading:12764117-Vision, Binocular
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Rapid motor learning in the translational vestibulo-ocular reflex.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, USA. wzhou@ent.umsmed.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.