Is there a direct link between gaze perception and joint attention behaviours? Effects of gaze contrast polarity on oculomotor behaviour.

abstract：:Using different tracer substances the pathways connecting the superior colliculus with the diencephalon were studied in the Madagascan hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi), a nocturnal insectivore with tiny eyes, a small and little differentiated superior colliculus and a visual cortex with no obvious fourth granular l...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Künzle H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents ILGM (the Infant Learning to Grasp Model), the first computational model of infant grasp learning that is constrained by the infant motor development literature. By grasp learning we mean learning how to make motor plans in response to sensory stimuli such that open-loop execution of the plan leads...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Oztop E,Bradley NS,Arbib MA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotional processing that occurs partially in advance of perceptual processing is known as pre-perceptual emotional processing. The facilitation of sensory processing due to pre-perceptual emotional processing can be observed in visual search and attentional blink tasks. However, previous event-related potential studi...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Takeshima Y,Gyoba J

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blocking effect of triethyldodecylammoniumbromide (TEA-C12), applied locally to the sciatic nerve, was studied in 28 adult BDF1 mice. Clinical parameters, electrophysiological recordings of muscle action potentials evoked by stimulation at the sciatic notch, and morphological aspects are presented. Our results sho...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Seitz RJ,Lipfert P,Willrich A,Himmelmann F

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinal positions of objects in the world change with each eye movement, but we seem to have little trouble keeping track of spatial information from one fixation to the next. We examined the role of attention in trans-saccadic localization by asking participants to localize targets while performing an attentional...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： MacInnes WJ,Hunt AR

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study by our group showed that the scaling of reach trajectories to target size is independent of conscious visual awareness of that intrinsic target property (Binsted et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:12669-12672, 2007). The present investigation sought to extend previous work and determine whether uncons...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Heath M,Neely KA,Yakimishyn J,Binsted G

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:In order to clarify the functional role of the supplementary motor area (SMA) and its rostral part (pre-SMA) in relation to the rate of repetitive finger movements, we recorded movement-related cortical potentials (MRCPs) directly from the surface of the mesial frontal lobe by using subdural electrode grids implanted ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kunieda T,Ikeda A,Ohara S,Yazawa S,Nagamine T,Taki W,Hashimoto N,Shibasaki H

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal spinal cord tissue was grafted to the anterior chamber of the eye of adult recipients. Transverse segments from the cervical and high thoracic levels were divided in halves which were grafted directly or further divided into ventral horn and dorsal horn parts before grafting. Survival and intraocular growth was ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Henschen A,Hoffer B,Olson L

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trajectories of goal-directed movements are less curved for movements over a surface (constrained) than for movements in empty space (unconstrained). To study whether this difference arises from feeling the surface slip across the skin or having to control the movements in a third dimension, we manipulated the availab...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： van der Graaff MC,Brenner E,Smeets JB

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study addresses the question as to the nature of the information on which the preactivation of the appropriate muscles in the grasping of the ball in a one-handed catching task is initiated and coordinated. High speed film and electromyograms were recorded while experiences subjects (N = 4) caught balls--projecte...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Savelsbergh GJ,Whiting HT,Burden AM,Bartlett RM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which attending to one stimulus while ignoring another influences the integration of visual and inertial (vestibular, somatosensory, proprioceptive) stimuli is currently unknown. It is also unclear how cue integration is affected by an awareness of cue conflicts. We investigated these questions using a t...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Berger DR,Bülthoff HH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ageing affects many visual functions. Here, we investigated the effects of ageing on vernier acuity and backward masking using the shine-through paradigm. We divided healthy older adults (>60 years) into two groups depending on whether vernier duration was comparable to younger adults (Older Adults 1) or not (Older Ad...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Pilz KS,Kunchulia M,Parkosadze K,Herzog MH

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has indicated that people do not use their judgment of a target's speed to determine where to hit it. Instead, they use their judgment of the target's changing position and an expected speed (based on the speed of previous targets). In the present study we investigate whether people also ignore the targe...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Brouwer AM,Middelburg T,Smeets JB,Brenner E

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the control of postural stability in preparation to a discrete, quick whole-body sway toward a target and back to the initial position. Several predictions were tested based on the theory of control with referent body orientation and the notion of multi-muscle synergies stabilizing center of pressure (COP)...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Nardini AG,Freitas SMSF,Falaki A,Latash ML

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the autoinhibitory control of endogenous acetylcholine (ACh) in rat and human neocortex, slices of these tissues were prelabelled with [(3)H]choline, superfused continuously and stimulated electrically using various frequencies in the presence or absence of drugs. The autoinhibitory feedback control...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Albrecht C,Bloss HG,Jackisch R,Feuerstein TJ

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that non-clinical subjects with high levels of schizotypal personality traits (High-S), as well as schizophrenic patients, have difficulties to judge how a scene would appear (so-called Appearance questions) from a point of view other than their own after having performed a disembodied perspective taking (...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Vastano R,Sulpizio V,Steinisch M,Comani S,Committeri G

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：:Adolescence is a transition period that is assumed to be characterized by increased sensitivity to reward. While there is growing research on reward processing in adolescents, investigations into the engagement of brain regions under different reward-related conditions in one sample of healthy adolescents, especially ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Nees F,Vollstädt-Klein S,Fauth-Bühler M,Steiner S,Mann K,Poustka L,Banaschewski T,Büchel C,Conrod PJ,Garavan H,Heinz A,Ittermann B,Artiges E,Paus T,Pausova Z,Rietschel M,Smolka MN,Struve M,Loth E,Schumann G,Flor H

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Could task performance be constrained by our ability to fully engage necessary neural processing through effort of will? The StartReact phenomenon suggests that this might be the case, as voluntary reaction times are substantially reduced by loud sounds. Here, we show that loud auditory stimulation can also be associa...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Anzak A,Tan H,Pogosyan A,Brown P

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For 1 week, healthy human participants ( n=7) were devoid of normal vision by exposure to prism lenses that optically rotated their perceived world around the line of sight by 180 degrees. Adaptation to such prisms involved sustained and vigorous practice of the ability to redirect the unadapted efferent motor command...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Richter H,Magnusson S,Imamura K,Fredrikson M,Okura M,Watanabe Y,Långström B

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual judgment of small numerosities (<4) is generally assumed to be done through subitizing, which is a faster process than counting. Subitizing has also been shown to occur in haptic judgment of the number of spheres in the hand. Furthermore, interactions have been shown to exist between visually perceived numbers ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Plaisier MA,Tiest WM,Kappers AM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accomplishment of mature locomotor movements relies upon the integrated coordination of the lower and upper limbs and the trunk. Human adults normally swing their arms and a quadrupedal limb coordination persists during bipedal walking despite a strong corticospinal control of the upper extremities that allows to ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： La Scaleia V,Ivanenko Y,Fabiano A,Sylos-Labini F,Cappellini G,Picone S,Paolillo P,Di Paolo A,Lacquaniti F

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was previously proposed that a linkage between the optokinetic system and the stereoscopic system in higher mammals serves to allow these animals to selectively stabilize those parts of the visual scene which lie in the plane of convergence as the animals move forward in a three-dimensional world (Howard and Ohmi, ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Howard IP,Simpson WA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The firing patterns of single raphe units at the posterior midbrain level were examined in chloralosed rats to assess the effects of cerebellar stimulation and/or harmaline administration. Raphe cells were grouped according to their spontaneous firing rate and other characteristics into two categories. From a total sa...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Weiss M,Pellet J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 15 musicians, cortical DC-potentials were recorded from the scalp before and during the execution of bimanual motor sequences. Subjects (Ss) either tapped with their two index fingers in synchrony (quavers against quavers; "2 against 2") or they tapped quavers against triplets ("2 against 3"). Either the right or t...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Lang W,Obrig H,Lindinger G,Cheyne D,Deecke L

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study of the heat grill illusion, sensations of burning and stinging were sometimes reported when the skin was cooled by as little as 2 degrees C. Informal tests subsequently indicated that these nociceptive sensations were experienced if cooling occurred when the stimulating thermode rested on the skin,...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Green BG,Pope JV

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that men experience more sexual arousal than women but also that women in mid-luteal phase experience more sexual arousal than women outside this phase. Recently, a few functional brain imaging studies have tackled the issue of gender differences as pertaining to reactions to erotica. The question of...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Gizewski ER,Krause E,Karama S,Baars A,Senf W,Forsting M

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to describe the differences in the presence of trigger points (TrPs) in the shoulder muscles and to investigate the presence of mechanical hypersensitivity in patients with unilateral shoulder impingement and healthy controls. Twelve patients with strictly unilateral shoulder impingement and 10 matched con...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hidalgo-Lozano A,Fernández-de-las-Peñas C,Alonso-Blanco C,Ge HY,Arendt-Nielsen L,Arroyo-Morales M

更新日期：2010-05-01 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