Accurate perception of the visual world plays a major role in animal survival. All vertebrates, whether running, swimming or flying, are confronted with the effects of their locomotor actions on the ability to perceive their surrounding environment [1]. The potential consequences of self-generated body motion include head movements that cause retinal image displacement with a resultant degradation of visual information processing. In order to maintain visual acuity during locomotion, retinal image drift must be counteracted by dynamic compensatory eye and/or head-adjustments that derive from sensory-motor transformations of vestibulo-ocular, optokinetic and proprioceptive inputs [2]. Here we report that efference copies of rhythmic neural signals produced by locomotor pattern-generating circuitry within the spinal cord of larval Xenopus laevis are conveyed to the brainstem extraocular motor nuclei and potentially contribute to gaze stabilization during locomotion. Appropriate spinal network-extraocular motor coupling not only persisted during actual undulatory tail movements in semi-intact preparations, but also during fictive locomotion in isolated brainstem-spinal cords without any movement-derived sensory inputs. This suggests that inherent feed-forward signalling may be used in combination with sensory feed-back to counteract the visual consequences of tadpole self-motion, with major implications for understanding gaze control in general.