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Gaze Shifts to Auditory and Visual Stimuli in Cats

Authors: Janet L. Ruhland, Tom C. T. Yin, Daniel J. Tollin

Published in: Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology | Issue 5/2013

Abstract

While much is known about the metrics and kinematics of gaze shifts to visual targets in cats, little is known about gaze shifts to auditory targets. Here, cats were trained to localize auditory and visual targets via gaze shifts. Five properties of gaze shifts to sounds were observed. First, gaze shifts were accomplished primarily by large head movements. Unlike primates, the head movement in cats often preceded eye movement though the relative timing of eye in head and head latencies depended upon the target modality and gaze shift magnitude. Second, gaze shift latencies to auditory targets tended to be shorter than equivalent shifts to visual targets for some conditions. Third, the main sequences relating gaze amplitude to maximum gaze velocity for auditory and visual targets were comparable. However, head movements to auditory and visual targets were less consistent than gaze shifts and tended to undershoot the targets by 30 % for both modalities. Fourth, at the end of gaze movement, the proportion of the gaze shift accomplished by the eye-in-head movement was greater to visual than auditory targets. On the other hand, at the end of head movement, the proportion of the gaze shift accomplished by the head was greater to auditory than visual targets. Finally, gaze shifts to long-duration auditory targets were accurate and precise and were similar to accuracy of gaze shifts to long-duration visual targets. Because the metrics of gaze shifts to visual and auditory targets are nearly equivalent, as well as their accuracy, we conclude that both sensorimotor tasks use primarily the same neural substrates for the execution of movement.

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Title: Gaze Shifts to Auditory and Visual Stimuli in Cats
Authors: Janet L. Ruhland
Tom C. T. Yin
Daniel J. Tollin
Publication date: 01-10-2013
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology / Issue 5/2013
Print ISSN: 1525-3961
Electronic ISSN: 1438-7573
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-013-0401-4

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