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Daniel Guitton

Daniel Guitton

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Neuroscience

D-Index
45
Citations
9694
World Ranking
6859
National Ranking
403

Overview

Daniel Guitton is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, ophthalmology, and neurology.

Their recent research includes studies published between 2020 and 2024 across various scientific venues. Highlights of these publications are:

  • Perisaccadic remapping: What? How? Why? (2020) in Reviews in the Neurosciences
  • Eye movements shape visual learning (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A novel tablet-based software for the acquisition and analysis of gaze and eye movement parameters: a preliminary validation study in Parkinson's disease (2023) in Frontiers in Neurology
  • Eye movement function captured via an electronic tablet informs on cognition and disease severity in Parkinson's disease (2024) in Scientific Reports
  • Oculomotor analysis to assess brain health: preliminary findings from a longitudinal study of multiple sclerosis using novel tablet-based eye-tracking software (2023) in Frontiers in Neurology

Guitton's work has frequently appeared in prominent journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Neurology, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Reviews in the Neurosciences, and Scientific Reports.

The primary subjects of their research include:

  • Glaucoma and retinal disorders
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments
  • Face recognition and perception
  • Ophthalmology and eye disorders

Collaborations have been significant in Guitton's scientific output, with frequent coauthors including Patrice Voss, J. Miguel Cisneros-Franco, Etienne de Villers-Sidani, Nils A. Koch, and Christopher C. Pack. These partnerships have resulted in multiple joint publications, indicating active and ongoing research interactions.

Best Publications

  • Frontal lobe lesions in man cause difficulties in suppressing reflexive glances and in generating goal-directed saccades

    D. Guitton;Henry A. Buchtel;R. M. Douglas

  • Gaze control in humans: eye-head coordination during orienting movements to targets within and beyond the oculomotor range.

    D. Guitton;M. Volle

  • Stimulation of the superior colliculus in the alert cat. I. Eye movements and neck EMG activity evoked when the head is restrained.

    D. Guitton;Marc Crommelinck;André Roucoux

  • Stimulation of the superior colliculus in the alert cat. II. Eye and head movements evoked when the head is unrestrained.

    André Roucoux;D. Guitton;Marc Crommelinck

  • Gaze control in the cat: studies and modeling of the coupling between orienting eye and head movements in different behavioral tasks.

    D. Guitton;D. P. Munoz;H. L. Galiana

  • Movement of neural activity on the superior colliculus motor map during gaze shifts

    Douglas P. Munoz;Denis Pélisson;Daniel Guitton

  • A Mixed-Signal Multichip Neural Recording Interface With Bandwidth Reduction

    B. Gosselin;A.E. Ayoub;J.-F. Roy;M. Sawan

  • Control of orienting gaze shifts by the tectoreticulospinal system in the head-free cat. III. Spatiotemporal characteristics of phasic motor discharges.

    D. P. Munoz;D. Guitton;D. Pelisson

  • Control of eye—head coordination during orienting gaze shifts

    D. Guitton

  • Eye-head coordination in cats.

    D. Guitton;R. M. Douglas;M. Volle

  • Visual, vestibular and voluntary contributions to human head stabilization.

    D. Guitton;R. E. Kearney;N. Wereley;B. W. Peterson

  • Control of orienting gaze shifts by the tectoreticulospinal system in the head-free cat. II. Sustained discharges during motor preparation and fixation.

    D. P. Munoz;D. Guitton

  • A Sensorimotor Role for Traveling Waves in Primate Visual Cortex

    Theodoros P. Zanos;Patrick J. Mineault;Patrick J. Mineault;Konstantinos T. Nasiotis;Daniel Guitton

  • Gaze shifts evoked by stimulation of the superior colliculus in the head-free cat conform to the motor map but also depend on stimulus strength and fixation activity

    Martin Paré;Marc Crommelinck;Daniel Guitton

  • The fixation area of the cat superior colliculus : effects of electrical stimulation and direct connection with brainstem omnipause neurons

    Martin Paré;Daniel Guitton

  • Fixation and orientation control by the tecto-reticulo-spinal system in the cat whose head is unrestrained.

    D P Munoz;D Guitton

  • Frontal 'oculomotor" area in alert cat. I. Eye movements and neck activity evoked by stimulation.

    D. Guitton;G. Mandl

  • Central organization and modeling of eye-head coordination during orienting gaze shifts.

    H. L. Galiana;D. Guitton

  • Analysis of primate IBN spike trains using system identification techniques. I. Relationship To eye movement dynamics during head-fixed saccades.

    Kathleen E. Cullen;Daniel Guitton

  • The use of system identification techniques in the analysis of oculomotor burst neuron spike train dynamics.

    Kathleen E. Cullen;Claudio G. Rey;Daniel Guitton;Henrietta L. Galiana

  • Frontal 'oculomotor' area in alert cat. II. Unit discharges associated with eye movements and neck muscle activity.

    D. Guitton;G. Mandl

  • Tectospinal neurons in the cat have discharges coding gaze position error.

    D.P. Munoz;D. Guitton

  • Changing patterns of eye-head coordination during 6 h of optically reversed vision.

    G. Melvill Jones;D. Guitton;A. Berthoz

  • Compensatory eye and head movements generated by the cat following stimulation-induced perturbations in gaze position.

    D. Pélisson;D. Guitton;D. P. Munoz

  • Gaze-related activity of brainstem omnipause neurons during combined eye-head gaze shifts in the alert cat.

    M Paré;D Guitton

  • Presaccadic burst discharges of tecto-reticulo-spinal neurons in the alert head-free and -fixed cat.

    D.P. Munoz;D. Guitton

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher C. Pack
Christopher C. Pack McGill University
Douglas P. Munoz
Douglas P. Munoz Queen's University
Kathleen E. Cullen
Kathleen E. Cullen Johns Hopkins University
J. Douglas Crawford
J. Douglas Crawford York University
Martin Paré
Martin Paré Queen's University
Richard J. Krauzlis
Richard J. Krauzlis National Institutes of Health
Ziad M. Hafed
Ziad M. Hafed University of Tübingen
Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz
Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mohamad Sawan
Mohamad Sawan Polytechnique Montréal

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