Temporal patterning of saccadic eye movement signals

被引:24
作者
Kimmel, Daniel L. [1 ]
Moore, Tirin [1 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Neurobiol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
关键词
motor control; neural coding; electrical stimulation; saccade; temporal coding; oculomotor;
D O I
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0386-07.2007
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Electrical microstimulation is used widely in experimental neurophysiology to examine causal links between specific brain areas and their behavioral functions and is used clinically to treat neurological and psychiatric disorders in patients. Typically, microstimulation is applied to local brain regions as a train of equally spaced current pulses. We were interested in the sensitivity of a neural circuit to a train of variably spaced pulses, as is observed in physiological spike trains. We compared the effect of fixed, decelerating, accelerating, and randomly varying microstimulation patterns on the likelihood and metrics of eye movements evoked from the frontal eye field of monkeys, while holding the mean interpulse interval constant. Our results demonstrate that the pattern of microstimulation pulses strongly influences the probability of evoking a saccade, as well as the metrics of the saccades themselves. Specifically, the pattern most closely resembling physiological spike trains (accelerating pattern) was most effective at evoking a saccade, three times more so than the least effective decelerating pattern. A saccade-triggered average of effective random trains confirmed the positive relationship between accelerating rate and efficacy. These results have important implications for the use of electrical microstimulation in both experimental and clinical settings and suggest a means to study the role of temporal pattern in the encoding of behavioral and cognitive functions.
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页码:7619 / 7630
页数:12
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