Cerebellar Coordination of Eye and Hand Movements

Chris Miall

Cerebellar Coordination of Eye and Hand Movements
The cerebellum coordinates eye and hand movements. Miall and colleagues found the cerebellum was strongly activated in a task involving ocular pursuit of a target with simultaneous joystick control of a cursor. Time offsets between eye and hand motion allowed control of the degree of eye-hand coordination. Only the cerebellum showed activity changes which co-varied with time offset. See Miall RC, Reckess GZ & Imamizu H. (2001) The cerebellum coordinates eye and hand tracking movements. Nature Neuroscience, 4:638-644.
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