A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have found the brain's visual cortex plays a key role in promoting the plasticity of innate, spontaneous eye movements.
For the study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI), researchers used a mouse model to measure the relationship between vestibulo-ocular reflex and optokinetic reflex, and the role of the visual cortex in the plasticity of these reflexes. Researchers believe the findings shed new light on the role of the mammalian cortex in orchestrating eye movement
The study was recently published in the journal Nature.
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Source: National Eye Institute