Neural Integrator

Commands to move the eyes arise as eye velocity commands that are sent to the motoneurons.

The necessary eye position commands are produced by integration of the velocity command by a neural integrator. This neural integrator is made up of a network of neurons located in the pontine reticular formation and adjacent vestibular nuclei. All eye velocity commands go directly to the motoneurons and to the neural integrator. The output of the neural integrator provides eye position information for the motoneurons.