Gravitational cues contribute to accurate localisation of mentally represented cutaneous targets.

abstract：:While sensory corticotectal connections have received considerable attention, relatively little is known about the nature of superior colliculus neurons that receive input from the cortical frontal eye fields. The present experiments used microstimulation of indwelling electrodes in the frontal eye fields and single-u...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Meredith MA

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular Ca2+ activity (aCa) changes were measured with Ca2+-sensitive microelectrodes in the cat cerebral cortex during iontophoretic administration of excitatory and inhibitory aminoacids. Glutamate, aspartate and DL homcysteate usually decreased aCa from a baseline of 1.3 mM to as low as 0.1 mM. The amplitude ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Heinemann U,Pumain R

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of experiments in which the known projections of the septal complex to the hippocampal formation have been transected, we have used both anterograde and retrograde tracing techniques in an attempt to demonstrate a ventral septo-hippocampal pathway. In cases where transections of the fimbria, dorsal fornix ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Milner TA,Amaral DG

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efferent subcortical connections of the dorsomedial cortical visual area (DM) in the owl monkey were determined by tracing degenerating axons following lesions or by tracing axonal pathways following injection of radioactively labeled proline. Areas of termination included structures which are known to receive inp...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Norden JJ,Lin CS,Kaas JH

更新日期：1978-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This research is about the role of categorical and coordinate spatial relations and allocentric and egocentric frames of reference in processing spatial information. To this end, we asked whether spatial information is firstly encoded with respect to a frame of reference or with respect to categorical/coordinate spati...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ruotolo F,Iachini T,Postma A,van der Ham IJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation and inhibition of jaw-closing motoneurons (Masseteric and Temporal Motoneurons, Mass. and Temp. Mns) during transient jaw closing, the so-called jaw-closing reflex, and prolonged jaw opening elicited by palatal stimulation were studied. By pressing the anterior palatal surfaces sustained jaw opening was eli...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Takata M,Tomioka S,Nakajo N

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously established an fMRI task battery suitable for mapping the language processing network in children. Among the tasks used, the synonyms and the vowel identification task induced robust task-related activations in children with average language abilities; however, the fixed presentation time seems to b...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Máté A,Lidzba K,Hauser TK,Staudt M,Wilke M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia patients show impaired saccadic response switching, pointing to action control deficits at the level of response selection. Previous studies on healthy subjects suggested that response switch effects might decrease if the prior response is longer ago, reflecting a slow dissipation of the response program...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Franke C,Reuter B,Breddin A,Kathmann N

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The responses are described of cochlear nucleus neurons of anaesthetized cats as a function of time in dependence on intensity and frequency of tonal stimuli. Depending on spectral properties three types are distinguished in the group of spontaneously active units: A type (activation only) AS type (activation and s...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： van Gisbergen JA,Grashuis JL,Johannesma PI,Vendrik AJ

更新日期：1975-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Many age-related degenerative diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) increasingly appear to have similarities in their underlying causes. By applying knowledge between disorders, and in particular between degenerative diseases of different components of the CNS (e.g. the eye and the brain), we can begin to eluci...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Harvey H,Durant S

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study addressed some of the controversial issues surrounding the anticonvulsant effect of phenytoin, and the predictive validity of the guinea-pig kindling model for the screening of anticonvulsant drugs. Following an intraperitoneal injection of either 50 or 75 mg/kg phenytoin, we analysed plasma concentrations ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Gilbert TH,Bharadia V,Teskey GC

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation of motor control to weightlessness was studied during a 7-day spaceflight. The maintenance of control of upright posture was examined during a voluntary raising movement of the arm and during the voluntary raising on tiptoe. In order to evaluate the contribution of visual cues, three types of visual situati...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Clément G,Gurfinkel VS,Lestienne F,Lipshits MI,Popov KE

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation over the cerebellum is known to transiently suppress the contralateral motor cortex in humans. However, projections from the cerebellar nuclei to the primary motor cortex are disynaptic excitatory pathways through the ventral thalamus. In the present investigation we studied facilitatory effects...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Iwata NK,Hanajima R,Furubayashi T,Terao Y,Uesugi H,Shiio Y,Enomoto H,Mochizuki H,Kanazawa I,Ugawa Y

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of prior experience concerning direction of a postural perturbation on the balance response of cats to translations of their support surface. Previous work has shown that, when cats are translated in many directions in the horizontal plane, they respond by exerting a...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Macpherson JM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time course of development of visual acuity for square wave gratings was measured behaviourally in a number of cats that were reared in total darkness until they were either 4 (5 cats) or 6 (1 cat) months of age. Less extensive measurements were also made on animals reared in a similar manner until they were eithe...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Timney B,Mitchell DE,Giffin F

更新日期：1978-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were trained to detect an instantaneous lateral displacement of a small spot of light. The smallest movement for 79% correct performance was then determined. Severing the splenium of the corpus callosum, which has to be done to reveal the superior colliculi, had no effect on the m...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Cowey A,Smith B,Butter CM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, tactile distractor processing has primarily been investigated by focusing on the spatial characteristics of distractors and the impact of their presentation on the orienting of attention. In two experiments, we examined the influence of tactile distractors when the location of stimulus presentation was kept c...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Mast F,Frings C,Spence C

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of co-ordination between posture and movement was investigated in human subjects performing a load lifting task. Sitting subjects held their left (postural) forearm in a horizontal position while supporting a 1 kg load via an electromagnet. Perturbation of the postural forearm position consisted of the...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Paulignan Y,Dufossé M,Hugon M,Massion J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the synaptic connections between pairs of Bötzinger-complex, bulbospinal expiratory neurons in decerebrate rats. All were antidromically activated from the spinal cord at the C2-C3 border. Cross-correlation histograms of 18 ipsilateral pairs showed troughs on both sides of time zero (8) and to one side of ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Tian GF,Peever JH,Duffin J

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has demonstrated that negative affect influences attentional processes. Here, we investigate whether pre-experimental negative affect predicts a hypervigilant neural response as indicated by increased event-related potential amplitudes in response to neutral and positive visual stimuli. In our study,...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Schomberg J,Schöne B,Gruber T,Quirin M

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied characteristics of digit action and their co-variation patterns across trials (prehension synergies) during static holding of an object while the external torque could change slowly and smoothly. The subjects held in the air an instrumented handle with an attachment that allowed a smooth change in the exter...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Sun Y,Park J,Zatsiorsky VM,Latash ML

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have found that affective states with high motivational intensity narrow attentional scope, whereas affective states with low motivational intensity broaden attentional scope. This conclusion, however, is based on fragmented evidence based on several separate studies. The present study tests this conc...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Liu L,Zhang G,Zhou R,Wang Z

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation was used in three experiments to measure the properties of long-latency intracortical inhibition (LICI) acting on the relaxed first dorsal interosseus muscle of the left and right hand in right-handed volunteers. The experiments show that LICI is asymmetrical: it emerges ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hammond GR,Garvey CA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the sensitivity to sinusoidal linear accelerations in the plane of the utricular macula was tested in afferents. The head orientation relative to the translation axis was varied in order to determine the head position that elicited the maximal and minimal responses for each afferent. The response...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Si X,Angelaki DE,Dickman JD

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The praxis system comprises a network of brain regions dedicated to complex skilled movements. Following suggestions of a female advantage on learned movements (Chipman and Hampson in Neuropsychologia 44(12):2315-2329, 2006), we investigated how males and females acquire skilled movements. Subjects viewed and imitated...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Cohen NR,Pomplun M,Gold BJ,Sekuler R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is an important issue to address the mode of information processing in the somatic motor circuit linking the frontal cortex and the basal ganglia. In the present study, we investigated the extent to which corticostriatal input zones from the primary motor cortex (MI), the supplementary motor area (SMA), and the pre...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Takada M,Tokuno H,Nambu A,Inase M

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has demonstrated that viewing one's hand can induce tactile response compatibility effects at the hands. Here, we investigated the question of whether vision of one's own hand is actually necessary. The Eriksen flanker task was combined with the rubber hand illusion in order to determine whether tact...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Wesslein AK,Spence C,Frings C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The activity of cat semicircular canal and otolith afferents was studied during yaw and roll rotations, respectively, to examine their dynamic behavior. 2. A sinusoidal analysis of the canal afferent activities showed that their dynamic characteristics are similar to those of second order vestibular neurons, except...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Anderson JH,Blanks RH,Precht W

更新日期：1978-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-range tactile masking has been reported between mirror symmetric body locations. This suggests a general principle of contralateral inhibition between corresponding points on each side of the body that may serve to enhance distinguishing touches on the two halves of the body. Do such effects occur before or after...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： D'Amour S,Harris LR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adequate cerebral perfusion is necessary to preserve cerebral O(2) supply in order to maintain brain cell function. Our aim was to assess the influence of gestational age on the response of cerebral hemodynamics to hypoxemia and to determine thresholds of cerebral O(2) supply for preservation of brain cell function in...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Van Os S,Klaessens J,Hopman J,Liem D,Van de Bor M

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00