Exploring gaze movements in lampreys: Insights into vertebrate neural mechanisms for stabilizing and goal-oriented eye movements
Marta Barandela, Carmen Núñez-González, Cecilia Jiménez-López, Manuel A. Pombal, Juan Pérez-Fernández · FENS Forum 2024
To perform advanced behaviors employing vision, mechanisms are necessary to stabilize the scene on the retina, including the optokinetic reflex, mediated by the pretectum (PT). Additionally, this stabilizing responses are modified to redirect our eyes to specific targets playing a key role the optic tectum (OT). Here, we investigated the role of PT and OT in processing optokinetic and non-optokinetic stimuli in the lamprey; an accessible animal model that enables ex-vivo preparations maintaining sensory organs. Moreover, the unique stepwise development of their visual system allows to study th
ePoster · Neuroscience