CEREBELLAR NUCLEI IN EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL & ADAPTATION

这项研究的目的是了解小脑如何帮助眼球运动。 我们知道小脑对我们的每一个动作都很重要，但我们并不知道它到底做了什么，也不知道它是如何做的，我们可以用眼睛的运动来研究小脑，而不是用肢体或其他运动来研究小脑，因为我们对大脑如何产生眼睛的运动比其他任何运动都了解得多。 我们的研究结果也将帮助我们了解大脑如何产生眼球运动。 眼动是我们生活的重要组成部分。 我们每天都要做数以万计的眼球运动来看感兴趣的东西，并把它们看得很清楚。 眼球运动的停滞严重降低了我们阅读、观看和视觉引导其他运动的能力。 在其他项目中，我们正在研究小脑在某些东西使眼球运动不准确后使眼球运动准确的能力中的作用。 小脑参与了无意识学习，使我们的动作保持准确，但我们不知道它扮演的角色。 1997年，我们发表了一篇关于正常猴子如何适应快速眼球运动的详细描述。 这种描述将帮助我们研究大脑如何修改动作以保持准确。 我们还发表了一篇关于尾侧顶核在我们用来观察缓慢移动目标的缓慢平滑追踪眼球运动中的作用的描述。 最后，我们提交了一篇关于多次重复快速眼球运动如何影响这些运动表现的论文。 这些信息将帮助我们正确解释我们从猴子身上收集的关于眼球运动适应的数据。

The goal of this research is to understand how the cerebellum aids eye movements. We know that the cerebellum is important in every movement we make, but we do not know exactly what it does or how it does it. We can make progress faster by investigating the cerebellum with eye movements than with limb or other movements because we know much more about how the brain produces eye movements than any other movements. Our results will also help us understand how the brain produces eye movements. Eye movements are an important part of our lives. Every day we make tens of thousands of eye movements to look at things of interest and see them clearly. Abnormalities in eye movements severely reduce our ability to read, see, and visually guide our other movements. Among other projects, we are investigating the role of the cerebellum in the ability to make eye movements accurate after something has made them inaccurate. The cerebellum has been implicated in the unconscious learning that keeps our movements accurate, but we do not know what role it plays. In 1997 we published a detailed description of how normal monkeys adapt their rapid eye movements. This description will help us investigate how the brain modifies movements to keep them accurate. We also published a description of the role of the caudal fastigial nucleus in the slow smooth-pursuit eye movements that we use to look at slowly moving targets. Finally, we submitted a paper on how making many repeated rapid eye movements affects the performance of these movements. This information will help us correctly interpret data on eye movement adaptation that we collect from monkeys.