The effect of early musical training on adult motor performance: evidence for a sensitive period in motor learning.

abstract：:The present study examines the development of grip force modulation relating to self-induced loads during repetitive vertical arm movements at different frequencies with a hand-held object. One hundred and thirty-four 3- to 6-year-old children and 16 adults were asked to move a lightweight object up and down at increa...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Blank R,Breitenbach A,Nitschke M,Heizer W,Letzgus S,Hermsdörfer J

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interval timing deficiencies in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients have been a matter of debate. Here we test the possibility of PD heterogeneity as a source for this discrepancy. Temporal performance of PD patients and control subjects was assessed during two interval tapping tasks and during a categorization task of ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Merchant H,Luciana M,Hooper C,Majestic S,Tuite P

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cats, anaesthetized with chloralose and paralysed, the responses of units in the right lateral thalamus were recorded while the extrinsic ocular muscles (EOM) of the right eye were stretched in the dark. Phasic responses were found in all layers of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGNd) and in the perigenicul...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Donaldson IM,Dixon RA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theta burst stimulation (TBS) is a special repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) paradigm, where bursts of low-intensity stimuli are applied in the theta frequency. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of neuronavigated TBS over primary somatosensory cortex (SI) on laser-evoked potentials ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Poreisz C,Antal A,Boros K,Brepohl N,Csifcsák G,Paulus W

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory neurones of Xenopus laevis were studied by the patch clamp technique under voltage-clamp conditions. Isolated receptor cells were obtained by dissociating the olfactory mucosa in a Ca(2+)-free solution. Usually some of the resulting isolated olfactory cells lost all of their cilia during the dissociation pro...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Schild D,Bischofberger J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of altered gravitational forces (AGF) on the development of the static vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) were investigated in Xenopus laevis tadpoles exposed to hypergravity (1.4g; 3g) or microgravity conditions (German spacelab mission D-2) for 9-10 days. The effects of light conditions during development wer...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Sebastian C,Esseling K,Horn E

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modification of the normal locomotor pattern of humans was investigated using a split-belt locomotion protocol (treadmill belt speeds of 4.5 km/h and 1.5 km/h for the right and left legs, respectively) and also by changing afferent input from the legs (30% reduction or increase in body weight by suspending subject...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Jensen L,Prokop T,Dietz V

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vestibular nuclei and the interstitial nucleus of Cajal (INC) have been regarded as key elements of the velocity-to-position integrator for vertical eye movements. This paper reports a class of type II vestibular neurons that receives input from the INC and carries vertical eye movement signals that appear to repr...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Niwa M,Chimoto S,Iwamoto Y,Yoshida K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A force-matching task was used to study the influence of constraining tactile information from the hand on the perception of forces generated with the index finger flexors, the palmar prehensile grasp and with the elbow flexors. Subjects generated the same reference forces (2-10 N) with each muscle group and matched t...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Jones LA,Piateski E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microelectrode recordings were made from dorsal column postsynaptic (DCPS) fibres, in the fasciculus gracilis of the cat, at thoracic level Th 12, and from single cells in the nucleus gracilis. The sensitivity of the fibres (Th 12) and cells (bulbar level) to both gentle and noxious stimuli was studied and a classific...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Angaut-Petit D

更新日期：1975-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a late-onset, neurodegenerative disease associated with the loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord, brain stem and primary motor cortex. Deficit in the motor function is one of the clinical features of this disease. However, the association between adverse morphological alterat...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Das S,Nalini A,Laxmi TR,Raju TR

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive responses to balance perturbations have been shown to be improved by training. This investigation aimed to compare the effects of block and random training perturbation schedules on stability gains of compensatory arm and leg movements in response to unpredictable large-magnitude balance perturbations. Pertur...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Takazono PS,Ribeiro de Souza C,Ávila de Oliveira J,Coelho DB,Teixeira LA

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tone bursts produced bands of selective 2-[14C]-deoxyglucose labelling in the inferior colliculus (IC) of the awake monkey. Low tone frequencies produced labelling in dorsal regions and high tone frequencies produced labelling in ventral regions. The position of the bands coincided with the position of a single unit w...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Webster WR,Servière J,Crewther D,Crewther S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inter-limb learning transfer (ILT) between the upper-limbs has been well documented, but no corresponding study of the lower limbs has been done. We investigated ILT in the lower limbs of subjects who learned to move a cursor toward targets within 800 ms using ankle movements: plantar/dorsi-flexion and inversion/evers...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Morris T,Newby NA,Wininger M,Craelius W

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissociated cell suspensions were prepared from the ventral midbrain of normal mouse foetuses and stereotaxically implanted into the neostriatum of 2-3 months old homozygous weaver mutant mice, which are severely deficient in dopamine. In tests of amphetamine-induced turning behaviour 60 days after grafting, recipient...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Triarhou LC,Brundin P,Doucet G,Norton J,Björklund A,Ghetti B

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The short-latency electromyographic response evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation (MEP) increases in size during fatigue, but the mechanisms are unclear. Because large changes occur in the muscle action potential, we tested whether changes in the response to stimulation of the peripheral motor nerve could fully...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Taylor JL,Butler JE,Gandevia SC

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a declarative memory paradigm, the anatomical correlates of spatial location encoding and retrieval in the healthy human brain as reflected by BOLD fMRI were investigated. During encoding, subjects were instructed to view and keep in mind different locations of an object on a platform seen from different viewpoi...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Frings L,Wagner K,Quiske A,Schwarzwald R,Spreer J,Halsband U,Schulze-Bonhage A

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we described physiological properties of pontine reticulo-spinal neurons which generate bursts and decaying tonic discharges related to eye movements and neck muscle activity during ipsiversive gaze shifts (Grantyn and Berthoz 1987). Two of these "eye-neck reticulo-spinal neurons" (EN-RSN) were labeled by i...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Grantyn A,Ong-Meang Jacques V,Berthoz A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abundant evidence has revealed that social observation could enhance people's norm-enforcement behaviors to norm violators. However, whether such enhancement is strategically reputation-based without changes on awareness of social norms or it is accompanied with strengthened perception of norm violations remains uncle...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ouyang H,Sun F,Che L,Zhang W,Cheng X,Zheng L

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our study we examined, in the rabbit, the interactions between temperature regulation and the state of increased vigilance and emotional arousal induced by a Classical Aversive Conditioning Procedure. A Delay Conditioning Procedure was used. The Conditioned Stimulus (CS) was a 1350 Hz, 85 dB tone, the Unconditioned...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Franzini C,Lenzi P,Cianci T

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast cyclic movements and discrete motor acts are controlled differently, presumably because fast cyclic tasks are more automated, thereby depending on different circuits. If fast cyclic movements are made less predictable (e.g., by mixing frequencies), one would predict that their control will be less automated, requ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Koenraadt KL,Duysens J,Meddeler BM,Keijsers NL

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasopressin and oxytocin immunoreactivity (AVP-IR, OT-IR) have been detected in the trigeminal and dorsal root ganglia (TG, DRG) of the rat. We have investigated whether AVP or OT have any neurotransmitter role in these tissues by measuring the effects of the peptides on levels of intracellular second messengers. AVP ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Horn AM,Lightman SL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored whether the synergic control of the hand during multi-finger force production tasks depends on the hand muscles involved. Healthy subjects performed accurate force production tasks and targeted force pulses while pressing against loops positioned at the level of fingertips, middle phalanges, and proximal p...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Cuadra C,Bartsch A,Tiemann P,Reschechtko S,Latash ML

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Touches on one hand or forearm can affect tactile sensitivity at contralateral locations on the opposite side of the body. These interactions suggest an intimate connection between the two sides of the body. Here, we explore the effect of masking not across the body but through the body by measuring the effect of a ma...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： D'Amour S,Harris LR

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed average histograms from responses evoked by flashing stimuli and noted previously described variations in the shape of the response profile, particularly with respect to sharpness of the peak. To express this variable, we measured the half-rise latency, which is the latency from stimulus onset required ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Lu SM,Guido W,Vaughan JW,Sherman SM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfaction is unique among the senses in that signals from the peripheral sensory receptors bypass the thalamus on their way to the cortex. The fact that olfactory stimuli are not gated by the thalamus has led some researchers to suggest that people may be unable to selectively direct their attention toward the olfacto...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Spence C,McGlone FP,Kettenmann B,Kobal G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of the retinal ganglion cell classes in the cuban treefrog Hyla septentrionalis were studied qualitatively and quantitatively. In the superficial layers of the optic tectum three main classes of afferent optic nerve fibers could be distinguished, class-1*, class-3 and class-4 neurons. Hyla displays a mo...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Grüsser-Cornehls U

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study attempted to demonstrate that the indicator arm influences end point distribution in contralateral multi-joint proprioceptive tasks and also that intrinsic physical characteristics of multi-joint arms (arm stiffness) may predict the error pattern. For this purpose, we carried out two types of contral...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Itaguchi Y,Fukuzawa K

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How the CNS deals with the issue of motor redundancy remains a central question for motor control research. Here we investigate the means by which neuromuscular and biomechanical factors interact to resolve motor redundancy in rhythmic multijoint arm movements. We used a two-df motorized robot arm to manipulate the dy...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： de Rugy A,Riek S,Oytam Y,Carroll TJ,Davoodi R,Carson RG

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the flight of Spacelab-1 a series of vestibular experiments was performed on the crew by a group of European investigators. Control experiments were carried out on the same subjects pre- and postflight. The tests included caloric stimulation of the ears, threshold measurements of response to linear acceleration...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： von Baumgarten RJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00