Vinsamlegast notið þetta auðkenni þegar þið vitnið til verksins eða tengið í það: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/24841
Saccades have been extensively investigated and have been found to be generated from five places in the brain with the oculomotor center of the brainstem as its pathway to the eyes. Express saccades are low-latency and mostly involuntary saccades which are generated within the superior colliculus. The training of express saccades in one direction can benefit other directions within the same eye. Horizontal saccadic eye movements are performed by the abducens nerve by means of motorneurons. In order to coordinate the eyes, the abducens nerve also sends interneurons to the contralateral eye. With that in mind we hypothesized that by training one eye those benefits might be transferred to the other eye. Nine participants were trained on their dominant eye to perform express saccades and then the dominant and non-dominant eye were tested in the middle and at the end of the study. For the non-dominant eye, saccadic latencies were reduced after training and larger number of express saccades were noticeable. Differences between the dominant and non-dominant eye were not significant. The results therefore show next to complete transfer of training effects from the dominant to the non-dominant. We talk about the need for a reproduction of this study along with possible direction for future studies.
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