Kathleen Cullen

 

Eye movements

demos and tutorials

For eye movement models, see /tutorials/eyemove:

Gaze shifting: kellergandhishieh, nichollsandsparks, Jergens, Robinson, Goldreich, Ringach, krauzlis, smoothpur
Gaze stabiliziation: paigevor
Motor neurons and plant: MNdemo

 


papers

 

Glimcher, PW (1998) Eye Movements. In: (Zigmond, et al., eds.) Fundamental Neuroscience. Academic Press: New York. [pdf]

Robinson DA (1981) The use of control systems analysis in the neurophysiology of eye movements. Annu Rev Neurosci. 4:463-503.

Saccades:

Sparks DL (2002) The brainstem control of saccadic eye movements. Nat Rev Neurosci

Cullen KE, Galiana HL, Sylvestre PA (2000) Comparing extraocular motoneuron discharges during head-restrained saccades and head-unrestrained gaze shifts. J Neurophysiol. 83(1):630-7.

Superior colliculus and feedback (controversy):

Matsuo S, Bergeron A, Guitton D (2004) Evidence for gaze feedback to the cat superior colliculus: discharges reflect gaze trajectory perturbations. J Neurosci. 24:2760-73.

Soetedjo R, Kaneko CR, Fuchs AF (2002) Evidence that the superior colliculus participates in the feedback control of saccadic eye movements. J Neurophysiol. 87:679-95.

VOR and vestibular processing:

Huterer M, Cullen KE (2002) Vestibuloocular reflex dynamics during high-frequency and high-acceleration rotations of the head on body in rhesus monkey. J Neurophysiol. 88:13-28.

Monkey recordings:

Cullen KE, Roy JE (2004) Signal processing in the vestibular system during active versus passive head movements. J Neurophysiol. 91:1919-33.[pdf]

Roy JE, Cullen KE (2004) Dissociating self-generated from passively applied head motion: neural mechanisms in the vestibular nuclei. J Neurosci. 24:2102-11.[pdf]

Cellular mechanisms:

Sekirnjak C, du Lac S (2002) Intrinsic firing dynamics of vestibular nucleus neurons. J Neurosci. 22:2083-95.

Ris L, Hachemaoui M, Vibert N, Godaux E, Vidal PP, Moore LE (2001) Resonance of spike discharge modulation in neurons of the guinea pig medial vestibular nucleus. J Neurophysiol. 86:703-16.

Vergence and saccades (controversy):

Sylvestre PA, Choi JT, Cullen KE (2003) Discharge dynamics of oculomotor neural integrator neurons during conjugate and disjunctive saccades and fixation. J Neurophysiol.

Mays LE, Gamlin PD (1995) Neuronal circuitry controlling the near response. Curr Opin Neurobiol.

links

Cullen's homepage
Cullen lab publications