The role of attention on the integration of visual and inertial cues.

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 review summarises current evidence on the cognitive mechanisms for the integration of spatial and temporal representations and of common brain structures to process the where and when of stimuli. Psychophysical experiments document the presence of spatially localised distortions of sub-second time intervals and su...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Oliveri M,Koch G,Caltagirone C

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The McGurk effect, which denotes the influence of visual information on audiovisual speech perception, is less frequently observed in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared to those without it; the reason for this remains unclear. Several studies have suggested that facial configuration context might...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ujiie Y,Asai T,Wakabayashi A

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with unilateral or bilateral partial section of the fornix were impaired on an eight arm radial maze task. Neurochemical analysis of hippocampal tissue four weeks after the lesions revealed a 50% reduction of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activity. The cholinergic marker was correlated negatively with the numb...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Sara SJ,Dyon-Laurent C,Guibert B,Leviel V

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden limb displacement evokes a complex sequence of compensatory muscle activity. Following the short-latency reflex and preceding voluntary reactions is an epoch termed the medium-latency reflex (MLR) that could reflect spinal processing of group II muscle afferents. One way to test this possibility is oral ingesti...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kurtzer I,Bouyer LJ,Bouffard J,Jin A,Christiansen L,Nielsen JB,Scott SH

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the primary motor hand area was used to test cortical excitability in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. Motor evoked potentials (MEPs) to TMS were studied at rest by utilising distinct paired-pulse TMS protocols. Out of 29 untreated PD patients and 29 healthy ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Pierantozzi M,Palmieri MG,Marciani MG,Bernardi G,Giacomini P,Stanzione P

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the contribution of both hemispheres in a lateralised lexical decision paradigm with emotional and neutral words in healthy volunteers. In a first experiment, high-density EEG analysis using source imaging methods revealed early specific participation of the temporoparietal junctions (TPJ) in both hemis...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Rochas V,Rihs TA,Rosenberg N,Landis T,Michel CM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functionally and anatomically, the orbicularis oculi (OO) muscle can be subdivided in a pretarsal, a preseptal, and an orbital portion. In the rhesus monkey, fluorescent and neuronal retrograde tracing experiments were performed in the pretarsal or the orbital portion of the OO muscle, or both, using fast blue, diamid...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： VanderWerf F,Aramideh M,Otto JA,Ongerboer de Visser BW

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The saccadic system has been traditionally regarded as two-dimensional (horizontal, vertical) and basically conjugate in the two eyes. However, saccades to disparate targets (e.g., targets in real three-dimensional space that are located in different directions and at different distances) are naturally disconjugate. W...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kapoula Z,Bucci MP,Lavigne-Tomps F,Zamfirescu F

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoreceptor pathways from the vomeronasal organ (VNO), and main olfactory system are known to be separate as they pass into the brain, at least until the level of the amygdala. In the amygdala, vomeronasal pathways project to the posteromedial cortical nucleus (PMCN), and medial nucleus (MN). The main olfactory path...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Licht G,Meredith M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracortical inhibition was investigated in normal human volunteers by paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation, using a new, computer-assisted threshold-tracking method. Motor threshold was defined as the stimulus amplitude required to evoke a motor evoked potential of 0.2 mV (peak-to-peak) in abductor pollici...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Fisher RJ,Nakamura Y,Bestmann S,Rothwell JC,Bostock H

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicted motion (PM) tasks test the accuracy of predicting the future position of a moving target. Previous PM studies using audiovisual stimuli have suggested that observers rely primarily on visual motion cues. To clarify the role of auditory signals in predicting future positions of bimodal targets, we designed a ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Prime SL,Harris LR

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibratory stimulation of the neck muscles can elicit illusory drift of a visual target; after vibration stops, motion in the opposite direction is perceived. This motion aftereffect (MAE) could be due to adaptation of proprioceptive mechanisms that encode head orientation, or at a stage where visual and proprioceptive...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Seizova-Cajic T,Sachtler WL

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of visual contextual illusions on motor behaviour vary largely between experimental conditions. Whereas it has often been reported that the effects of illusions on pointing and grasping are largest when the movement is performed some time after the stimulus has disappeared, the effect of a delay has hardly...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： de Brouwer AJ,Brenner E,Smeets JB

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to determine the contributions of endpoint variance and trajectory variability to the endpoint accuracy of goal-directed isometric contractions when the target force and contraction speed were varied. Thirteen young adults (25 +/- 6 years) performed blocks of 15 trials at each of 2 contrac...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Poston B,Christou EA,Enoka JA,Enoka RM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal ganglion cells of adult cats have the potential to regenerate their axons into autografted peripheral nerve. Two months after transplantation of the sciatic nerve to the axotomized optic stump, regenerated axons were labeled anterogradely with biocytin, and myelin formation by Schwann cells was examined electr...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Watanabe M,Sawai H,Fukuda Y

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptive field (RF) characteristics of cells in primary visual cortex of the mouse (C57B16 strain) were studied by single unit recording. We have studied the functional organization of area 17 along both the radial and tangential dimensions of the cortex. Eighty seven percent of the visual neurons could be classified...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Métin C,Godement P,Imbert M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether repetitive electrical stimulation of the common peroneal nerve (CPN) is associated with changes in the motor response of the tibialis anterior (TA) muscle elicited by focal magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex. Motor evoked potentials (MEP) with a stimulation in...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Khaslavskaia S,Ladouceur M,Sinkjaer T

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain noradrenaline (NA) system is known to modulate ischemic neuronal damage, and the turnover of NA has been suggested to increase in the early recovery period following cerebral ischemia. Using HPLC and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry we analyzed the tissue levels of NA and its metabolites, 3,4-dihydroxyph...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Gustafson I,Lidén A,Wieloch T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the head rotates, vestibulocollic reflexes counteract the rotation by causing contraction of the neck muscles that pull against the imposed motion. With voluntary head rotations, these same muscles contract and assist the movement of the head. The purpose of this study was to determine if an infinite variety of m...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Keshner EA,Baker JF,Banovetz J,Peterson BW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 11 squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus), the brain stem was systematically explored with electrical brain stimulation for sites affecting the acoustic structure of ongoing vocalization. Vocalization was elicited by electrical stimulation of different brain structures. A severe deterioration of the acoustical structu...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Dressnandt J,Jürgens U

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast goal-directed voluntary movements of the human upper extremity are known to be associated with three distinct bursts of EMG activity in antagonistic muscles. The role of each burst (AG1, ANT, AG2) in controlling motion is not fully understood, largely because overall limb response is a complex function of the ent...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Wierzbicka MM,Wiegner AW,Shahani BT

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thalamic reticular nucleus (RTN) exerts an inhibitory influence upon the dorsal thalamus. During wakefulness and arousal, RTN neurons fire tonically, whereas during slow-wave sleep they fire rhythmic high frequency bursts. The effects produced by RTN inhibition upon the activity of dorsal thalamic neurons will the...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Warren RA,Jones EG

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By studying human movement in the laboratory, a number of regularities and invariants such as planarity and the principle of isochrony have been discovered. The theoretical idea has gained traction that movement may be generated from a limited set of movement primitives that would encode these invariants. In this stud...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Grimme B,Lipinski J,Schöner G

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the accuracy with which, in the absence of vision, one can reach again a 2D target location that had been previously identified by a guided movement. A robotic arm guided the participant's hand to a target (locating motion) and away from it (homing motion). Then, the participant pointed freely toward t...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Baud-Bovy G,Viviani P

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral representation of space depends on the integration of many different sensory inputs. The vestibular system provides one such input and its dysfunction can cause profound spatial disorientation. Using positron emission tomography (PET), we measured regional cerebral perfusion with various vestibular stimul...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bottini G,Sterzi R,Paulesu E,Vallar G,Cappa SF,Erminio F,Passingham RE,Frith CD,Frackowiak RS

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-neuron activities were recorded in the hindlimb region of the primary somatosensory cortex and part of area 5 in awake Japanese monkeys. A total of 1050 units were isolated from five hemispheres of four animals. Receptive fields (RFs) and submodalities were identified for 90% of isolated neurons in areas 3a and...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Taoka M,Toda T,Iriki A,Tanaka M,Iwamura Y

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：:The latency of eye movements is influenced by the fixation task; when the fixation stimulus is switched off before the target presentation (gap paradigm) the latency becomes short and express movements occur. In contrast, when the fixation stimulus remains on when the target appears (overlap paradigm), eye movement la...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bucci MP,Pouvreau N,Yang Q,Kapoula Z

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In everyday life, we often use graphical interfaces where the visual space is mapped to the motor space with a visuomotor gain called the control display gain. One of the key objectives in the field of Human Computer Interaction is to design this control display gain so as to enhance users' performance. Although the c...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Scotto CR,Vu VH,Casiez G,Fernandez L

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00