Saccadic inhibition underlies the remote distractor effect.

abstract：:This study examined modulation of corticospinal excitability during both actual and imagined movements. Seven young healthy subjects performed actual (3-50% maximal voluntary contractions) and imagined index finger force production, and rest. Individual responses to focal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in fou...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Li S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinsonian rigidity is characterized by an increased resistance of a joint to externally imposed motion that remains uniform with changing joint angle. Two candidate mechanisms are proposed for the uniformity of rigidity, involving neural-mediated excitation of shortening muscles, i.e., shortening reaction (SR), or ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Xia R,Powell D,Rymer WZ,Hanson N,Fang X,Threlkeld AJ

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that attending to a cutaneous stimulus briefly increases its subjective intensity. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether an extended period of attention would produce a longer-lasting perceptual amplification. Eighty subjects were assigned alternately to experimental and control groups....

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hollins M,Athans L

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of trans-1-amino-cyclopentyl-1,3-dicarboxylate (trans-ACPD) and of DL-2-amino-3-phosphonopropionic acid (AP3), i.e. selective agonist and antagonist of metabotropic quisqualate receptors respectively, on parallel fibre (PF)-mediated EPSPs of Purkinje cells (PCs) were studied in an in vitro slice preparatio...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Crepel F,Daniel H,Hemart N,Jaillard D

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The course and cerebellar termination of the axons of the cells in the central cervical nucleus (CCN) was studied in five cats after injections of wheat germ agglutinin-horseradish peroxidase conjugate (WGA-HRP) into the C1-4 segments involving the CCN. In two cats a hemisection was performed ipsilateral to and above ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Wiksten B

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibration on localised areas of skin can be used to signal spatial orientation, multi-directional motion and also to guide arm and hand movements. This study investigated the possibility that vibration at loci on the skin might also be used to cue gaze direction. Eight subjects made eye or (head + eye) gaze saccades i...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Asseman F,Bronstein AM,Gresty MA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the physiological and psychological factors that contribute to healthy and pathological balance control in man has been made difficult by the confounding effects of the perturbations used to test balance reactions. The present study examined how postural responses were influenced by the acceleration-dece...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Carpenter MG,Thorstensson A,Cresswell AG

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Brentano version of the Müller-Lyer illusion one part looks longer and the other looks shorter than it really is. We asked participants to make saccadic eye movements along these parts of the figure and between positions on the figure and a position outside the illusion. By showing that saccades from outside th...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： de Grave DD,Smeets JB,Brenner E

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been repeatedly shown that precise finger force control declines with age. The tasks and evaluation parameters used to reveal age-related differences vary between studies. In order to examine effects of task characteristics, young adults (18-25 years) and late middle-aged adults (55-65 years) performed precisio...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Vieluf S,Godde B,Reuter EM,Voelcker-Rehage C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that simple cells in the cat striate cortex (area 17) fail to respond to two dimensional random patterns but respond vigorously to one dimensional patterns with identical power at the preferred orientation of the cell. Further observations suggest that complex cells inhibit simple cells so as to ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Burr D,Morrone C,Maffei L

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A startling acoustic stimulus (SAS) could cause transient effects on the primary motor cortex and its descending tracts after habituation of reflex responses. In the literature, there is evidence that the effects of SAS depend on the status of M1 excitability and delivery time of SAS. In this study, we aimed to compre...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Chen YT,Li S,Zhou P,Li S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discharges of muscle spindle afferents from the soleus muscle were studied in kittens aged 1-21 days and in adult cats. Vibration applied longitudinally to the tendon elicited one impulse for each cycle of vibration over the range 1-200 Hz for the kittens and up to 450 Hz for the adult. Threshold amplitudes were gener...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Gregory JE,Proske U

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that electrical stimulation in LC or NRM when tested on the activity of a multireceptive neurone in the spinal cord produced similar inhibitory actions. The present study aimed to define the pathways that mediate this descending inhibitory action in the spinal cord by pharmacological means ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Mokha SS,McMillan JA,Iggo A

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Descending vestibular pathways have been shown to influence recruitment thresholds of alpha motoneurones in both human and cat. However, whereas parallel connections to the fusimotor system have been shown in the cat, such connections have not yet been demonstrated in humans. In the present study we investigated wheth...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bent LR,Bolton PS,Macefield VG

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In anaesthetized cats (chloralose-urethan) the effects of brief tetanic electrical stimulation (50 to 100 ms) of the mesencephalic central gray matter and reticular formation on the inspiratory on-switch were studied during the expiratory (E) phase on the gross and unitary activities of phrenic, laryngeal inspiratory ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Gauthier P,Monteau R,Hilaire G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent work has revealed that visuospatial working memory (VSWM) relates to the rate of explicit motor sequence learning (Bo and Seidler in J Neurophysiol 101:3116-3125, 2009) and implicit sequence performance (Bo et al. in Exp Brain Res 214:73-81, 2011a) in young adults (YA). Although aging has a detrimental impa...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bo J,Jennett S,Seidler RD

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:When a target moves to a new location during a rapid aiming movement, the hand follows it, even when the participant intends not to. Pisella et al. (Nat Neurosci 3:729-736, 2000) claim that the posterior parietal cortex, in the dorsal visual stream, is responsible for this 'automatic pilot'. Here we study the limits o...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Cameron BD,Franks IM,Enns JT,Chua R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a functional measure of NMDA receptor effectiveness in kitten striate cortex, the uptake of 45Ca by visual cortical slices was measured after 2 minute bath applications of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA). Significant Ca uptake occurred in response to 12.5-100 microM NMDA in slices prepared from visual cortex of normal ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Feldman D,Sherin JE,Press WA,Bear MF

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the influence of acetylcholine (ACh) on the visual response properties of lagged cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of anaesthetised cats. By means of electrophysiological techniques, the response of single cells was recorded before, during and after ionophoretic application of ACh. ACh evoked ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hartveit E,Heggelund P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier studies have shown that eye positions, recorded in subjects scanning a distant visual scene with the head in a stable position, have only two degrees of freedom (Listing's law). Due to cyclovergence, this law is modified in near-vision. Two previous quantitative studies have documented that the sign of the tor...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Minken AW,Van Gisbergen JA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined the relationship between a measure of cerebral lateralization--differences in tympanic temperature (T(Ty))--and questionnaire measures of inattentiveness and hyperactivity in both people and dogs. Theories of cerebral lateralization indicate that cerebral asymmetry may improve attentive beha...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Helton WS,Maginnity M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the number of muscles and joints of the arm, more ways are available to produce an identical hand movement when pointing to a target than are strictly necessary. How the nervous system manages these abundant degrees of freedom was the focus of this study of pointing to targets of low and high indices of difficul...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Tseng YW,Scholz JP,Schöner G,Hotchkiss L

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to define cortical and subcortical structures activated during both active and passive movements of the ankle, which have a fundamental role in the physiology of locomotion, to improve our understanding of brain sensorimotor integration. Sixteen healthy subjects, all right-foot dominant...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ciccarelli O,Toosy AT,Marsden JF,Wheeler-Kingshott CM,Sahyoun C,Matthews PM,Miller DH,Thompson AJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-labeling combined with elution-restaining immunofluorescence techniques were used to analyze the extent of coexistence among the peptides cholecystokinin (CCK), peptide histidine-isoleucine (PHI)/vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), substance P and the catecholamine-synthesizing enzyme tyrosine hydroxylase ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Seroogy K,Tsuruo Y,Hökfelt T,Walsh J,Fahrenkrug J,Emson PC,Goldstein M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strong assumption shared by major theoretical approaches to cognition posits that the human cognitive system has a limited capacity for information processing. Evidence supporting this claim comes from the dual-task paradigm in which one cognitive system has to process two tasks simultaneously. In this study, we exa...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Liepelt R,Prinz W

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently demonstrated the existence of neurogenesis in the striatum of adult monkeys, but the number of striatal neurons generated under normal conditions was too small to establish their chemical phenotype. We therefore used brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which promotes neuronal differentiation and surv...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bédard A,Gravel C,Parent A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The descending projection of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) to the sympathetic preganglionic neurons (SPNs) in the upper thoracic cord of the rat was studied. PVN-fibers were labeled by anterograde transport of Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin (PHA-L), while SPNs were retrogradely labeled with choler...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hosoya Y,Sugiura Y,Okado N,Loewy AD,Kohno K

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects on striatal high affinity glutamate uptake (HAGU) of an apomorphine injection administered either alone or along with an electrical stimulation of the frontal cortex were compared between intact control rats and animals with 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) induced lesions of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic neuro...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kerkerian L,Nieoullon A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motoneurones innervating the retractor bulbi muscle in the cat have been identified by retrograde labelling with horseradish peroxidase, by intracellular recording and by intracellular staining with horseradish peroxidase. Their somata are found in an accessory abducens nucleus, analogous to that described in some oth...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Grant K,Guéritaud JP,Horcholle-Bossavit G,Tyć-Dumont S

更新日期：1979-02-15 00:00:00