Description
Research was conducted in order to simulate real-life impacts during shifts of gaze in humans. The objective of the research was achieved by applying assisting and opposing torque loads during gaze shifts of human subjects through a servomotor. The subjects performed a simple visual task to guide their gaze shifts in the dark. The visual task led the subject`s gaze towards eccentricities of a range within which the head`s contribution to the gaze coordinated movement is indispensable. The novel gaze movement trajectories produced support the existence of a feedback control mechanism in the eye-head coordination system that keeps track of the on-going movement and adjusts the movement`s kinematics on-line accordingly. The addition of a neck-muscle generated mechanism that interferes with the vestibulo-ocular reflex and affects the eye`s trajectory post-saccadically is hereby proposed as a complement to the existing neurophysiological feedback models. Vasileios Kokkinos, Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Degree in Philosophy, MSc in Embedded Systems, MSc in Neurological Sciences, MSc and PhD in Neuroscience. Co-Founder of Polymichanos Setups ETE and Nevrologikon OE, Greece. Clinical Manager of Neuraxon EPE, Greece. Research Fellow, UCL Epilepsy Research Group, UK.
