Effect of light sleep on three-dimensional eye position in static roll and pitch
2001 | Zeitschriftenartikel
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- Autor(en)
- Cabungcal, J. H.; Misslisch, H.; Scherberger, H. ; Hepp, K.; Hess, B. J. M.
- Zusammenfassung
- We examined three-dimensional eye positions in alertness and light sleep when monkeys were placed in different roll and pitch body orientations. In alertness, eye positions were confined to a fronto-parallel (Listing's) plane, torsional variability was small and static roll or pitch induced a torsional shift or vertical rotation of these planes. In light sleep, the planes rotated temporally by about 10°, torsional variability increased by a factor of two and the static otolith-ocular reflexes were reduced by about 70%. These data support the importance of a neural control of the thickness and orientation of Listing's plane, and suggest that part of the vestibular input underlying otolith-ocular reflexes depend on polysynaptic neural processing.
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2001
- Zeitschrift
- Vision Research
- ISSN
- 0042-6989
- Sprache
- Englisch