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Nature Reviews Neuroscience 3, 952–964 (1 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/nrn986
The brainstem control of saccadic eye movements
Abstract
The modern era of oculomotor research began with the advent of the chronic single-unit recording method in the late 1960s. Research carried out in the intervening years has made it possible to provide a detailed description of the saccadic command signals that are generated by motor neurons and the formation of these signals in premotor brainstem regions. These findings have been assimilated in control-systems models that simulate important behavioural features of saccades. Despite these great advances, key issues, such as the nature of the feedback signal and the location of the comparator, are unresolved and some of the factors that have impeded progress can be identified.
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