Oculomotor system articles within Nature

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• Article | 20 March 2024

  Motor neurons generate pose-targeted movements via proprioceptive sculpting

  Single motor neurons in Drosophila are stimulated to show that they direct head movements towards specific postures rather than generating fixed movement vectors, suggesting that the brain controls movements through a continuing proprioceptive–motor loop.

  • Benjamin Gorko
  • , Igor Siwanowicz
  •  & Stephen J. Huston

• Article | 26 October 2022

  Muscles that move the retina augment compound eye vision in Drosophila

  Drosophila are shown to have retinal muscles that allow them to smoothly track visual motion and also to make rapid eye movements, and the associated functions and mechanisms involved are discussed.

  • Lisa M. Fenk
  • , Sofia C. Avritzer
  •  & Gaby Maimon

• Article | 07 June 2017

  A retinal code for motion along the gravitational and body axes

  Global mapping shows that mouse retinal neurons prefer visual motion produced when the animal moves along two behaviourally relevant axes, allowing the encoding of the animal’s every translation and rotation.

  • Shai Sabbah
  • , John A. Gemmer
  •  & David M. Berson

• Letter | 14 October 2015

  Encoding of action by the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum

  Recording from Purkinje cells in monkeys, this study found that the combined simple-spike responses of bursting and pausing Purkinje cells, but not either population alone, predicted the real-time speed of saccades; moreover, when Purkinje cells were organized according to their complex-spike field, the population responses encoded both speed and direction of the eye during saccades via a gain field.

  • David J. Herzfeld
  • , Yoshiko Kojima
  •  & Reza Shadmehr