THE NEURAL INTEGRATORS OF THE MAMMALIAN SACCADIC SYSTEM

A.K. Moschovakis

Division of Computational Neuroscience,Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, FO.R.T.H., and Dept. Basic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, P.O. Box 1393, Crete, Greece

Received 8/11/97 Accepted 9/29/97

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Abstract

2. Introduction

3. Regions

4. Discharge patterns

4.1. NIC neurons

4.2. NPH neurons

4.3. Secondary vestibular neurons

5. Input-output connections

5.1. Comparison with the burst generators

5.2. MLB projections to the neural integrators

5.3. Comparison with motoneurons

5.4. Integrator projections to motoneurons

5.5. Motoneuronal projections of secondary vestibular neurons

5.6. Connections between the vestibular nuclei, the NIC and the NPH

6. Models

7. Conclusions

8. Acknowledgements

9. References

10. Entire manuscript