A neurological integrator for the oculomotor control system

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Abstract

This paper describes a mathematical model of a neurological integrator that has been developed to provide the very long leakage time constant required of the intgrator in the oculomotor system. The Gaussian distribution of cell thresholds and the eye-position- related discharge of the individual cells of the integrator model, and the highly specialized short-duration, high-frequency burst required of the input, have been modeled after the single-cell behavior actually observed in the oculomotor control areas of the brain stem of an alert primate.

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Research sponsored by National Institutes of Health Grants EY0095-03 and 7006-08.

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