Eye movements are very important in order to track an object or to stabilize an image on the
retina during movement. Animals without a fovea, such as the mouse, have a limited
capacity to lock their eyes onto a target. In contrast to these target directed eye movements,
compensatory ocular eye movements are easily elicited in afoveate animals1, 2, 3, 4.
Compensatory ocular movements are generated by processing vestibular and optokinetic
information into a command signal that will drive the eye muscles. The processing of the …