Leo Ling, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist. lling@bart.rprc.washington.edu

Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Dr. Ling is an oculomotor physiologist who has expertise in primate psychophysics and in behavioral training.  He is also an excellent real time programmer who will assist with the modifications of the existing data collection and stimulus control environment that are required for multichannel recording.  Dr. Ling serves a primary role in the management of the day to day operations within the laboratory, including the care and training of the animals.  He also supervises behavioral testing of the animals.  Dr ling also participates in the chronic and acute neural recording experiments, assists with data analysis, and contributes to the generation of publications and presentations resulting from this project.

Education (top) ±

  • 1985 - Post-Doc, Neurophysiology :: University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • 1988 - Ph.D., Physiology :: University of Cambridge, U.K.
  • 1979 - Neurophysiology :: Universität Ulm, Germany
  • 1979 - M.A., Physiology :: Unviersity of Cambridge, U.K.
  • 1975-78 - Plasma Physics :: Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, Munich
  • Natural Science Tripos - B.A. :: University of Cambridge, U.K.
Specific and Technical Accomplishments(top) ±

Lundgren Fund Scholarship, University of Cambridge
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Research Grant to work with Prof. W. Becker at the University of Ulm, F.R. Germany

Publications (top) ±

Fuchs AF, Becker W, Ling L, Langer TP, Kaneko CR. Discharge patterns of levator palpebrae superioris motoneurons during vertical lid and eye movements in the monkey. J Neurophysiol. 68(1): 233-43, 1992.


Coble, E.T., Ling, L., Phillips, J.O., Fuchs, A.F. The role of omni-pause neurons during gaze shifts. In: Visual and oculomotor functions, advances in eye movement research.   Edited by J. Van Rensbergen and G. d'Ydewalle.  Amsterdam:  Elsevier / North Holland, 1994,  p. 285-293.


Phillips, J.O., Ling, L., Siebold, C., Fuchs, A.F.  Gaze movements during sinusoidal tracking and body rotation.  I. A comparison between head free and head fixed responses in normal monkeys. In: Contemporary ocular motor and vestibular research.    Edited by A.F. Fuchs et al.  Stuttgart:  Georg Thieme Verlag, 1994,  p. 265-268.


Siebold, C., Ling, L., Phillips, J.O., Fuchs, A.F., Duckert, L.G.  Gaze movements during sinusoidal tracking and body rotation.  II. A comparison between normal and canal plugged monkeys.  In: Contemporary ocular motor and vestibular research.   Edited by A.F. Fuchs et al.  Stuttgart:  Georg Thieme Verlag, 1994,  p. 268-270.


Ling, L., Phillips, J.O., Siebold, C., Fuchs, A.F.  Gaze movements during sinusoidal tracking and body rotation. III. A computational exploration of pursuit and VOR interactions.  In: Contemporary ocular motor and vestibular research.  Edited by A.F. Fuchs et al.  Stuttgart:  Georg Thieme Verlag, 1994,  p. 182-184.


Phillips, J.O., Ling, L., Fuchs, A.F., Siebold, C., Plorde, J.J.  Rapid horizontal gaze movement in the monkey.  J. Neurophysiol.   73 (4):  1632-1652, 1995.


Phillips, J.O., Ling, L., Siebold, C.,  Fuchs, A.F., and Newlands, S.  Responses of vestibular neurons during passive and active head and eye movement in the primate.  Ann. N.Y Acad. Sci. , 781:  276-291, 1996.


Phillips, J.O., Fuchs, A., Ling, L., Iwamoto, Y., Votaw, S.  Gain adaptation of eye and head movement components of simian gaze shifts.  J. Neurophysiol., 78(5):  2817-2821, 1997.


Phillips, J.O., Ling, L., and Fuchs, A.F.  Action of the brainstem saccade burst generator during horizontal gaze shifts with the head unrestrained.  I.  Discharge patterns of omnidirectional pause neurons.  J. Neurophysiol., 81(3): 1284-95, 1999.


Newlands, S.D., Ling, L., Phillips, J.O., Siebold, C., Duckert, L., Fuchs, A. Short and long term consequences of canal plugging on gaze shifts in the rhesus monkey. I. Effects on gaze stabilization. J. Neurophysiol., 81(5): 2119-30, 1999.


Ling L, Fuchs AF, Phillips JO, Freedman EG. Apparent dissociation between saccadic eye movements and the firing patterns of premotor neurons and motoneurons. J Neurophysiol. 82(5): 2808-11 1999.


Brettler SC, Fuchs AF, Ling L. Discharge patterns of cerebellar output neurons in the caudal fastigial nucleus during head-free gaze shifts in primates. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1004 :61-8, 2003.


Ling L, Phillips JO, Siebold C. Examining the paradoxical relation between number of spikes and gaze amplitude in abducens neurons. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1004: 158-68, 2003.


Fuchs AF, Ling L, Phillips JO. Behavior of the Position-Vestibular-Pause (PVP) Interneurons of the Vestibular-Ocular Reflex During Head-Free Gaze Shifts in the Monkey. J Neurophysiol. Aug 24; [Epub ahead of print] 2005


Abstracts (top) ±


Newlands, S.,  Ling, L., Siebold, C.,  Duckert,  L.,  Phillips, J., Fuchs, A.    The effect of horizontal semicircular canal plugging on head-free gaze shifts.  ARO Abstr.  18 (1995)


Phillips, J.O., Ling, L. and Fuchs, A.F.  Head free primate gaze shifts in response to double target steps.  Soc. Neurosci Abstr.   21: 1197, 1995


Ling, L.,  Phillips, J.O., Iwamoto, Y., Newlands, S.D., and Fuchs, A.F. Responses of saccade related neurons in the primate brainstem during head-free gaze shifts to double target steps.    Soc. Neurosci Abstr.   22: , 1996


Newlands, S., Siebold, C., Ling, L.,  Phillips, J.O., and Fuchs, A.F. Adaptation of head free gaze shifts after semi-circular canal plugging in the primate.  Journal of Vestibular Research, 6 (4S):  88 , 1996


Phillips, J.O., Ling, L., Iwamoto, Y., Siebold, C., Newlands, S., and Fuchs, A.F. Head-related discharge in the primate brainstem during head-free gaze shifts.  Journal of Vestibular Research, 6 (4S):  12 , 1996