Affiliation:
1. Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
2. Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York
Abstract
Gaze shifts, brought about by coordinated eye-head movements through the eye and neck muscle system, are a part of everyday behavior, yet the neuromuscular underpinnings of gaze sequences are unclear. Using a combination of behavioral analyses, neural recordings, and electromyographic recordings, we show that sequential saccade plans developing in neural oculomotor centers can be extracted from the neck muscle activity of head-restrained macaques. Neck motor units, thus provide a readout of central sequence planning signals.
Funder
Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology,General Neuroscience