Sentences with phrase «ocular reflex»

Specifically, he studied how spaceflight influenced the vestibulo - ocular reflex in tadpoles.

The vestibulo - ocular reflex, for example, uses input from the brain's assessments of position and velocity to stabilize our gaze while we're moving.

Scanziani and his colleagues sought to understand the origins of this adaptive plasticity by studying the eye movements in mice before and after disabling their vestibular ocular reflex.

In their mouse model, disabling the vestibulo - ocular reflex increases the optokinetic reflex.

The vestibulo - ocular reflex adjusts our eye position to offset head movements.

To see for yourself how your inner ears make this adjustment, called the vestibulo - ocular reflex, hold your thumb upright at arm's length.

Silencing the visual cortex led to a significant reduction in the activity of the optokinetic reflex, suggesting that it is the visual cortex that is involved in mediating the plasticity between the optokinetic and the vestibulo - ocular reflexes.

As we rotate our heads and as the world around us moves, two ocular reflexes kick in to offset this movement and stabilize images projected onto our retinas, the light - sensitive tissue at the back of our eyes.

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The authors speculate that possible explanations for this finding is that reflex tearing might help flush PM from the ocular surface, or that environmental PM10 levels currently in Korea are not high enough to induce adverse effects on the ocular surface.