Lecture Notes

Why Eye Movements
Read chapter 1 of RHS Carpenter's Movements of the Eyes, 2nd Edition

Mechanical Load of the Eyeball

Extraocular muscles and their innervation

Hair Cell Biophysics and Semicircular Canal Mechanics
See paper by Hudspeth (1985) for further reading, and chapter 3 of Wilson & Melvill-Jones, on reserve;
and online review by David Corey (2004)
2004: Extra notes on SCC mechanics second order equation and time constants...

Vestibuloocular Reflex (VOR)
See chapter 2 of RHSC2

Time Constant of VOR; Velocity Storage; Optokinetic Response.
Interaction of visual and vestibular influences on eye movements.
Notes on The Neural Integrator (and leaky integrator)

Virtues of Negative Feedback: Simulink Models
See Revised Notes link below. further comment: negative feedback can increase the speed of response of the "open loop" transfer function; in the case of a second order transfer function observe that the only parameter changed by negative feedback is the coefficient of the undifferentiated output variable: thus negative feedback can transform a higher order system from overdamped to underdamped. See example below:

where the sign of the discriminate has changed from positive to negative after unity gain negative feedback.
Revised Lecture Notes for Feedback Basics, 2004

Plasticity of the VOR gain
Supplemental reading: David Robinson, JNP, 1976. & see chapter 13 of RHSC2
Notes on gradient descent and Hebb's Rule
Notes on back propagation of error in 2-layer nonlinear neural networks.

Cerebellum
Display of preserved mammalian cerebellum; chapter 14 of Nolte book, The Human Brain 3rd Ed.
Rotating Purkinje Cell

Saccades: Size, accuracy, speed, latency
See chapter 4 of RHSC2
Saccades: Pulse-step model

Saccadic dysmetria
Read Optican & Robinson (J. Neurophysiol. 1980) & see chapter 13 of RHSC2

Rods, Cones and Phototransduction

Retina: forming spatial and temporal gradients
Borrow Werblin 1992 video of Retinal Image Computer if you like

Directionally Selective Units In Rabbit's Retina and other topics in perception of motion.

Smooth Pursuit

Cortical area MT and smooth pursuit
review of J. Neurosci paper by Newsome et al. 1985

Vergence: Disparity and Accommodation

Accommodation and pupil size: Intraocular muscles

Miniature eye movements
Chapter 6 of RHSC2, see Dreamweaver Lecture notes.

Head and Eye coordination

Measuring Eye Movements
Demo of limbus tracker ASL210

Surgical correction of strabismus-caused amblyopia

Optic Flow

Development of eye movements in infants