How the Brain Moves the Eyes and the Head: Neural Mechanisms of Oculomotor and Vestibular Function

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Program for: October 5 :: October 6 :: October 7 :: October 8

Oral Presentations

The following is a list of the scheduled oral presentation topics for the conference, as well as a short description of each topic and a list of guest speakers for each topic. You may download a printable (.pdf) copy of this information (OralPresentations.pdf) or a schedule of the entire conference, which includes this information, (Program.pdf).

Presenters may wish to refer to the Instructions for Presenters page for information reguarding presentation times and the resources available for presenters. Presenters are also encouraged to upload their presentations before the conference.

Vestibular Control of Eye Movement (3:00-5:30pm):
Organizer: Mike King

  • (3:00pm) Then and Now ... 40 Years of Eyes and Ears with Albert. B. Cohen
  • (3:25pm) Central Vestibular Processing: Neural Coding and Multimodal Interactions. Kathleen Cullen
  • (3:50pm) Mysteries of the Linear VOR. W. Michael King
  • (4:15pm) Recovery of Eye, Head and Gaze Control During Regeneration. D. Dickman
  • (4:40pm) Intratympanic Gentamicin and Clues to the Role of Type I Hair Cells in the Vestibulo-ocular Reflex. J. Carey
  • (5:05pm) Processing of Vestibular Signals by the Cerebellar Nodulus and Ventral Uvula. D. Angelaki

Saccadic Eye Movements (9:00am-12:00pm, Oct. 6):
Organizer: Chris Kaneko

There will be a coffee break during this session from 10:30-11:00am. The presentations for this session are listed below:

  • (9:00am) Forty Years of Saccade Studies. C. Kaneko
  • (9:30am) Neural Circuit for Generation of Saccades in the Brainstem. Shinoda
  • (10:00am) Driving Signals for Saccade Adaptation from the Superior Colliculus. Iwamoto
  • (11:00am) The Balance of Activity in FEF Accounts for Increases in Saccadic Reaction Time as a Function of the Number of Response Choices. Keller
  • (11:30am) Modulation of Visual Processing by Saccades. R. Wurtz (Click for Abstract)

Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements (4:00-7:00pm, Oct. 6):
Organizer: Steve Lisberger

There will be a coffee break during this session from 5:30-6:00pm. The presentations for this session are listed below:

  • (4:00pm) The flocculus: 1971-2008. S. Lisberger
  • (4:30pm) The Visual Processing Underlying the Initial Ocular Following Response. Miles
  • (5:00pm) P'ing and Time: Aging, Urgency and Probability. M. Shadlen
  • (6:00pm) Visual Motion-Memory and Predictive Pursuit: Comparison of SEF and FEF. Fukushima
  • (6:30pm) Signal Identification in Parallel Cortical-Pontine Pathways for Smooth Pursuit. Mustari

Motor Units (9:00-10:40am, Oct. 7):
Organizer: Mark Binder

  • (9:00am) Introduction M. Binder
  • (9:10am) Regional and Functional Segregation of Extraocular Motoneurons Jean Buttner-Ennever
  • (9:35am) Contribution of the Intrinsic Membrane Properties and Cholinergic Synaptic Inputs to Firing Properties in Rat Oculomotor Nucleus Motoneurons B. Torres
  • (10:00am) Modeling Recruitment of Ocular Motoneurons: Implications for Eye-Movement Control P. Dean

Cerebellar Control of Gaze (Part I: 11:10-12:00pm, Part II: 1:20-3:00pm, Oct. 7):
Organizer: Ulrich Büttner

  • (11:10am) Cerebellar Climbing and Mossy Fibers: Distinct Contributions to Regulation of Purkinje Cell Simple Spikes. N. Barmack
  • (11:35am) Saccade Adaptation: Implications for Cerebellar Function. D. Zee
  • (1:20pm) Complex Spikes: Rarely Appeared, but Instructive. R. Soetedjo
  • (1:45pm) Changes in Simple Spike P-cell Activity in the Oculomotor Vermis During Saccade Adaptation. Yoshiko Kojima (Click for Abstract)
  • (2:10pm) Cerebellar Saccade Slowing Depends on a Signal that Crosses the Vermis Midline. R. Robinson
  • (2:35pm) Different Functions of Saccade Related Fastigial Nucleus Neurons. Ulrich Büttner

Coordination of Head and Eye Movements (3:30-5:10pm, Oct. 7):
Organizer: Jim Phillips

  • (3:30pm) Coordination of Eye and Head Movement Following Loss of Modulated Vestibular Input From the Semicircular Canals. J.O. Phillips, L. Ling, S.D. Newlands, and A.F. Fuchs  (Click for Abstract)
  • (3:50pm) The Caudal Fastigial Nucleus and the Control of Gaze Orientation : Lessons from Perturbation Experiments in the Cat and Monkey. L.  Goffart (Click for Abstract)
  • (4:10pm) Long-Lead Burst Neuron Activity during Coordinated Eye-Head Movements.  E.G. Freedman (Click for Abstract)
  • (4:30pm) Coordination of Vestibular Afferent and Corollary Discharge (Eye Position) Signals During Translation. M. Wei and S.D. Newlands (Click for Abstract)
  • (4:50pm) Integration and Adaptation Across Oculomotor and Sensory Spatial Representations.  G.D. Paige, Q. Cui, B. Razavi, and W.E. O’Neill (Click for Abstract)