Journal article
Neuronal substrates of motor learning in the velocity storage generated during optokinetic stimulation in the squirrel monkey
Journal of neurophysiology, Vol.97(2), pp.1114-1126
02/2007
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00983.2006
PMID: 17093114
Abstract
Chronic motor learning in the vestibuloocular reflex (VOR) results in changes in the gain of this reflex and in other eye movements intimately associated with VOR behavior, e.g., the velocity storage generated by optokinetic stimulation (OKN velocity storage). The aim of the present study was to identify the plastic sites responsible for the change in OKN velocity storage after chronic VOR motor learning. We studied the neuronal responses of vertical eye movement flocculus target neurons (FTNs) during the optokinetic after-nystagmus (OKAN) phase of the optokinetic response (OKR) before and after VOR motor learning. Our findings can be summarized as follows. 1) Chronic VOR motor learning changes the horizontal OKN velocity storage in parallel with changes in VOR gain, whereas the vertical OKN velocity storage is more complex, increasing with VOR gain increases, but not changing following VOR gain decreases. 2) FTNs contain an OKAN signal having opposite directional preferences after chronic high versus low gain learning, suggesting a change in the OKN velocity storage representation of FTNs. 3) Changes in the eye-velocity sensitivity of FTNs during OKAN are correlated with changes in the brain stem head-velocity sensitivity of the same neurons. And 4) these changes in eye-velocity sensitivity of FTNs during OKAN support the new behavior after high gain but not low gain learning. Thus we hypothesize that the changes observed in the OKN velocity storage behavior after chronic learning result from changes in brain stem pathways carrying head velocity and OKN velocity storage information, and that a parallel pathway to vertical FTNs changes its OKN velocity storage representation following low, but not high, gain VOR motor learning.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Neuronal substrates of motor learning in the velocity storage generated during optokinetic stimulation in the squirrel monkey
- Creators
- Pablo M Blazquez - Washington University in St. LouisMaria A Davis-Lopez de CarrizosaShane A HeineyStephen M Highstein
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of neurophysiology, Vol.97(2), pp.1114-1126
- DOI
- 10.1152/jn.00983.2006
- PMID
- 17093114
- ISSN
- 0022-3077
- eISSN
- 1522-1598
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2007
- Academic Unit
- Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neuroscience and Pharmacology
- Record Identifier
- 9984622055202771
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