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16775207

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-8-10
pubmed:abstractText
Elucidating the causal role of head and eye movement signaling during cerebellar-dependent oculomotor behavior and plasticity is contingent on knowledge of precerebellar structure and function. To address this question, single-unit extracellular recordings were made from hindbrain Area II neurons that provide a major mossy fiber projection to the goldfish vestibulolateral cerebellum. During spontaneous behavior, Area II neurons exhibited minimal eye position and saccadic sensitivity. Sinusoidal visual and vestibular stimulation over a broad frequency range (0.1-4.0 Hz) demonstrated that firing rate mirrored the amplitude and phase of eye or head velocity, respectively. Table frequencies >1.0 Hz resulted in decreased firing rate relative to eye velocity gain, while phase was unchanged. During visual steps, neuronal discharge paralleled eye velocity latency (approximately 90 ms) and matched both the build-up and the time course of the decay (approximately 19 s) in eye velocity storage. Latency of neuronal discharge to table steps (40 ms) was significantly longer than for eye movement (17 ms), but firing rate rose faster than eye velocity to steady-state levels. The velocity sensitivity of Area II neurons was shown to equal (+/- 10%) the sum of eye- and head-velocity firing rates as has been observed in cerebellar Purkinje cells. These results demonstrate that Area II neuronal firing closely emulates oculomotor performance. Conjoint signaling of head and eye velocity together with the termination pattern of each Area II neuron in the vestibulolateral lobe presents a unique eye-velocity brain stem-cerebellar pathway, eliminating the conceptual requirement of motor error signaling.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0022-3077
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
96
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1370-82
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-1-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Precerebellar hindbrain neurons encoding eye velocity during vestibular and optokinetic behavior in the goldfish.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA. james.beck@med.nyu.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural