Processing of spatial information by floccular and non-floccular target neurons in the alert cat

Kevin J. Quinn; James F. Baker

doi:10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01300-0

Processing of spatial information by floccular and non-floccular target neurons in the alert cat

Kevin J. Quinn, James F. Baker^*

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Neuroscience

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Abstract

In five alert chronically-prepared cats we studied the response to sinusoidal 3-D whole body rotation of well-isolated vestibular nucleus neurons which were tested for monosynaptic input from the vestibular labyrinth, direct projection to the oculomotor nucleus and, in some cases, inhibition from cerebellar flocculus stimulation. Neurons directly inhibited by flocculus stimulation had significantly greater horizontal-vertical semicircular canal signal convergence than did neurons not inhibited by flocculus stimulation.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	143-149
Number of pages	7
Journal	Brain research
Volume	780
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01300-0
State	Published - Jan 5 1998

Funding

This work was supported by NEI grant EY07342 and NINDS grant NS31805. We are indebted to Dr. Yu Sato for his assistance in implanting the flocculus stimulating electrodes in the alert cat. We thank Heather Strohmeyer for technical assistance.

Keywords

Medial vestibular nucleus
Semicircular canal
Single unit
Spatial property
Superior vestibular nucleus
VOR

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Neuroscience
Molecular Biology
Clinical Neurology
Developmental Biology

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