NDLI: Blinks slow memory-guided saccades

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Powers, Alice S. Basso, Michele A. Evinger, Craig
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Memory-guided saccades are slower than visually guided saccades. The usual explanation for this slowing is that the absence of a visual drive reduces the discharge of neurons in the superior colliculus. We tested a related hypothesis: that the slowing of memory-guided saccades was due also to the more frequent occurrence of gaze-evoked blinks with memory-guided saccades compared with visually guided saccades. We recorded gaze-evoked blinks in three monkeys while they performed visually guided and memory-guided saccades and compared the kinematics of the different saccade types with and without blinks. Gaze-evoked blinks were more common during memory-guided saccades than during visually guided saccades, and the well-established relationship between peak and average velocity for saccades was disrupted by blinking. The occurrence of gaze-evoked blinks was associated with a greater slowing of memory-guided saccades compared with visually guided saccades. Likewise, when blinks were absent, the peak velocity of visually guided saccades was only slightly higher than that of memory-guided saccades. Our results reveal interactions between circuits generating saccades and blink-evoked eye movements. The interaction leads to increased curvature of saccade trajectories and a corresponding decrease in saccade velocity. Consistent with this interpretation, the amount of saccade curvature and slowing increased with gaze-evoked blink amplitude. Thus, although the absence of vision decreases the velocity of memory-guided saccades relative to visually guided saccades somewhat, the cooccurrence of gaze-evoked blinks produces the majority of slowing for memory-guided saccades.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00746.2012
Ending Page	741
Page Count	8
Starting Page	734
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15221598
e-ISSN	15221598
Journal	Journal of Neurophysiology
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	109
Language	English
Publisher	American Physiological Society
Publisher Date	2013-02-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	American Physiological Society
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neuroscience Physiology

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