Lina Juzokaite

• BSc Biomedical Sciences
• Behavioural, electrophysiological and haemodynamic correlation of ocular motility: a case study

This study focuses on eye movement control by cerebral cortex. Our knowledge of saccadic eye movement is not complete and questions still remain as follows. How saccadic reflexes and voluntary eye movements are operated in the brain? What is structural organisation of saccadic network in the grey matter? How intense learning affects functional neuroplasticity thus saccadic performance?

Data had emerged based on functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) and eye tracking technique. Results demonstrated that structural and functional organisation differed during pro-saccadic and anti-saccadic tasks, furthermore eye track results revealed improvement in response time to visual stimulus and accuracy of final eye position after training.

Funding source: Newcastle University, undertaken at Monash University, Australia.