Optokinetic Nystagmus in the Domestic Pigeon
作者:
Michael Conley,
Katherine V. Fite,
期刊:
Brain, Behavior and Evolution
(Karger Available online 1980)
卷期:
Volume 17,
issue 2
页码: 89-102
ISSN:0006-8977
年代: 1980
DOI:10.1159/000121792
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Optokinetic nystagmus;Pigeon visual system;Fovea;Visuomotor behavior
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Using both binocular and monocular viewing conditions, optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) frequency-velocity functions were measured before and after ophthalmic laser-produced retinal lesions. With binocular viewing conditions, the range of effective pattern velocities and the upper velocity threshold increased by 20–30°/sec in subjects with both foveas lesioned, and by 12°/sec in a subject with only a single foveal lesion. Subjects with parafoveal lesions showed no change in postlesion binocular OKN response functions.Prelesion monocular OKN functions were obtained for both temporal-to-nasal (T-N) and nasal-to-temporal (N-T) directions of pattern movement. T-N OKN functions were similar to those obtained with binocular viewing but N-T movement elicited OKN over a much narrower range of stimulus velocities. Lesions of the foveal area appeared to have little effect on N-T OKN functions, although an increase in N-T upper velocity thresholds was obtained from at least one eye in 4 of 5 animals. Thus, lesions of the foveal and parafoveal area do not impair, and may actually facilitate, OKN in the pig
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