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Three adult female monkeys were trained to direct their gaze toward auditory targets. When the animals were free to move their heads about the vertical axis, this was accomplished with shortlatency, coordinated eye-head movements reminiscent of responses to visual targets. The similarity of response to auditory and visual targets suggests a common motor program elicited by stimuli of different modalities. Since these modalities do not share the same reference system, this implies a remapping between the two reference systems.
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This research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health Research Grant NS 09343, awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Grant NCR 22-009-798, and the National Institute of General Medical Science, NIGMS 5 T01-GM01064
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Whittington, D.A., Hepp-Reymond, M.C. & Flood, W. Eye and head movements to auditory targets. Exp Brain Res 41, 358–363 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00238893
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00238893