Compensatory head and eye movements in the frog and their contribution to stabilization of gaze

Experimental Brain Research
N Dieringer, W Precht

Abstract

Compensatory head movements, recorded in unrestrained frogs, were compared to compensatory eye movements recorded from animals that had their head fixed. Movements were evoked by oscillating the animal in the dark (vestibular stimulation) or in the light in front of an earth-fixed, patterned visual background (combined stimulation) or by rotating vertical black and white bars (optokinetic stimulation) around the stationary animal. Oscillations occurred in the horizontal plane at frequencies between 0.025 and 0.5 Hz. Gain and phase values of head and eye movements, relative to stimulus movements were calculated. Evoked eye movements were limited in amplitude to +/- 3-6 degrees, increasing with the size of the animal. Head movements were limited to +/- 30-40 degrees. Resetting fast-phases of both head and eyes were very rarely observed during sinusoidal stimulation and no eye movements were recorded in the absence of intended head movements. Vestibularly evoked head movements exhibited a frequency-dependent threshold that was not observed for vestibulo-ocular responses. Above threshold, the gain of evoked head responses increased and reached a frequency-dependent plateau at which the system behaved approximately linearly. Within ...Continue Reading

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