Microstimulation of neurons in the pontine reticular formation produces horizontal eye movements. Neurons in the rostral midbrain that have similar properties drive vertical eye movements.

The medullary reticular formation ventral part (MdV ... gigantocellular reticular nucleus ventral and alpha part); Pn (pontine reticular nucleus, including Pn oral and caudal part); Gi ...

This is accomplished by the paramedian pontine reticular formation, a group of inhibitory cells on each side of the brain that lies just anterior to the abducens at the sixth nucleus; signals from ...