Neurons with complex visual properties in the superior colliculus of the macaque monkey.

abstract：:Postischemic spontaneous hyperthermia as a complication of occlusion of the middle cerebral artery with an intraluminal filament has been observed by some authors, but many other reports do not discuss this factor. The possible reasons why some of the authors have not seen severe hyperthermia in their experiments incl...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Abrahám H,Somogyvári-Vigh A,Maderdrut JL,Vigh S,Arimura A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood-brain barrier (BBB) arises from epithelial-like tight junctions that virtually cement adjoining capillary endothelium together in the brain microvasculature. Several experimental manipulations have been shown able to increase the permeability of brain capillaries, by altering endothelial cell membrane integr...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Saija A,Princi P,Trombetta D,Lanza M,De Pasquale A

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebrovascular consequences of the gentle restraint commonly used for the measurement of local cerebral blood flow (LCBF) in conscious rats has been tested by using two drugs, propranolol and diazepam. Propranolol induced small LCBF decreases in 7 structures suggesting that the cerebral circulation was partially ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Lasbennes F,Seylaz J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proprioceptive input arising from torsional body movements elicits small reflexive eye movements. The functional relevance of these eye movements is still unknown so far. We evaluated their slow components as a function of stimulus frequency and velocity. The horizontal eye movements of seven adult subjects were recor...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Mergner T,Schweigart G,Botti F,Lehmann A

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dorsomedial frontal cortex (DMFC) was studied in monkeys trained to make visually guided eye or arm movements. Portions of DMFC are involved in the execution of learned, goal-directed behaviors. Many neurons discharge with both eye and hand movements as well as when motor responses are withheld, provided these behavio...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Mann SE,Thau R,Schiller PH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial properties of human binocular mechanisms were investigated using the technique of subthreshold summation. Isolation of binocular mechanisms was achieved by means of interocular stimulus presentation. The contrast detection threshold for a sinusoidal test grating viewed by one eye was found to be reduced by...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Blake R,Levinson E

更新日期：1977-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of visual cell properties was studied in cortical Area 18 (A18) of normal (NRs) and dark-reared kittens (DRs), from 2 weeks of age to adulthood. In addition to the orientation selective (S) and non-selective (NS) cells, we describe a new type of non-selective cell with a peripheral zone (NSp), which co...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Milleret C,Gary-Bobo E,Buisseret P

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Size constancy is the ability to perceive objects as remaining constant in size regardless of their distance from the observer. Emmert's law demonstrates that viewing distance determines the perceived size of afterimages according to the amount of depth cues that are available. Using an afterimage paradigm, we examine...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Millard AS,Sperandio I,Chouinard PA

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied cognitive functions related to processing sensory and motor activities in the basal ganglia (BG), specifically in the putamen and in cortical structures forming the BG-frontocortical circuits. Intracerebral recordings were made from 160 brain sites in 32 epilepsy surgery candidates. We studied P3-like poten...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Rektor I,Bares M,Kanovský P,Brázdil M,Klajblová I,Streitová H,Rektorová I,Sochůrková D,Kubová D,Kuba R,Daniel P

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the importance of binocular vision to foot placement accuracy when stepping onto a floor-based target during gait initiation. Starting from stationary, participants placed alternate feet onto targets sequentially positioned along a straight travel path with the added constraint that the initial...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Chapman GJ,Scally A,Buckley JG

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study employed neurophysiological methods to relate the condition of the corticospinal system with the voluntary control of lower-limb muscles in persons with motor-incomplete spinal cord injury. It consisted of two phases. In a group of ten healthy subjects, single and paired transcranial magnetic stimulation (T...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： McKay WB,Lee DC,Lim HK,Holmes SA,Sherwood AM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine how adults processed common fractions with common numerators under two distinct conditions. Whereas participants were presented with only common fractions in a "simple" condition, a "complex" condition involved the random presentation of common fractions as well as decimal fraction...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Zhang L,Xin Z,Li F,Wang Q,Ding C,Li H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether the sensory perception could be a more direct assessment of sensory deficit as oppose to the postural performance, we examined the effect of reduced cutaneous cues on motion perception and motion control. The subject was translated in a mediolateral direction with a single sinusoidal acceleratio...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Yi Y,Park S

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to further investigate the contribution of primary muscle spindle feedback to proprioception and higher brain functions, such as movement trajectory recognition. For this purpose, complex illusory movements were evoked in subjects by applying patterns of muscle tendon vibration mimicki...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Albert F,Bergenheim M,Ribot-Ciscar E,Roll JP

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study (Rossi et al. 2001) implied the absence of figure-ground based contextual modulation in macaque V1, in contrast to the study on which it was modelled (Zipser et al. 1996). We suggest that Rossi et al. may have underestimated the extent of modulation by considering only positive and not also negative mod...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Corthout E,Supèr H

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In convergent strabismus (esotropia) the spatial asynchrony of the two eye inputs unbalances the interocular interactions, leading to the functional advantage of the nondeviated eye and the inhibition of the esotropic eye. It may be argued that the strabismic suppression, if it is the effect of inhibitory interactions...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Di Stefano M,Gargini C

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the effect of age on the modulation of forces produced by the digits and to determine the effects of practice on the control of these forces in young and older adults. Young (n = 14, 19-28 years) and old (n = 12, 67-75 years) adults used a precision grip to perform a variable for...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Voelcker-Rehage C,Alberts JL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the link between action planning and motor imagery in 6- and 8-year-old children. Action planning efficiency was assessed with a bar transport task. Motor imagery and visual imagery abilities were measured using a hand mental rotation task and a number (i.e., non-body stimuli) mental rotation task, respect...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Toussaint L,Tahej PK,Thibaut JP,Possamai CA,Badets A

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:A central network of neurones in the spinal cord has been shown to produce a rhythmic motor output similar to locomotion after suppression of all afferent inflow. The experiments were performed mainly in acute spinal cats (th. 12), which had received DOPA i.v. and the monoamine oxidase inhibitor Nialamide. In some pre...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Grillner S,Zangger P

更新日期：1979-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Four rhesus monkeys with bilateral removals of SII and five unoperated monkeys were trained on tests of tactile equivalence, weight discrimination and generalization, tactile discrimination learning (including concurrent learning and serial reversal) and inter-manual transfer of tactile learning. Lesioned animals were...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ridley RM,Ettlinger G

更新日期：1978-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has highlighted the role of haptic feedback for manual dexterity, in particular for the control of precision grip forces between the index finger and thumb. It is unclear how fine motor skills involving more than just two digits might be affected, especially given that loss of sensation from the hand aff...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Miall RC,Rosenthal O,Ørstavik K,Cole JD,Sarlegna FR

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that sinusoidal galvanic vestibular stimulation (sGVS), delivered bilaterally at 0.2-2.0 Hz, evokes a potent entrainment of sympathetic outflow to muscle and skin. Most recently, we showed that stimulation at 0.08-0.18 Hz generates two bursts of modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hammam E,Dawood T,Macefield VG

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study assessed the ability of the central nervous system (CNS) to use echoic information from sensory substitution devices (SSDs) to rotate the shoulders and safely pass through apertures of different width. Ten visually normal participants performed this task with full vision, or blindfolded using an SSD to obtai...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kolarik AJ,Timmis MA,Cirstea S,Pardhan S

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that the vestibular short-latency-evoked potential (VsEP) in response to the brief head acceleration stimulus is a compound action potential of neurons innervating the otolith organs. However, due to the lack of direct evidence, it is currently unclear whether the VsEP is primarily generate...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Chihara Y,Wang V,Brown DJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described a visual area situated in the cortex surrounding the deep infolding of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus of the cat (Mucke et al. 1982). Using orthograde and retrograde transport methods we now report anatomical evidence that this anterior ectosylvian visual area (AEV) is connected with a su...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Norita M,Mucke L,Benedek G,Albowitz B,Katoh Y,Creutzfeldt OD

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People are good at telling the direction of a moving tactile stimulus and this capacity provides a sensitive clinical test of somatosensory disturbances. Tactile directional sensitivity depends on two different kinds of somatosensory information, i.e. spatiotemporal information and information about friction-induced c...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Backlund Wasling H,Norrsell U,Göthner K,Olausson H

更新日期：2005-10-01 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 differential distribution of glutamate (Glu), aspartate (Asp), glycine (Gly), gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and taurine (Tau) was investigated in the cat's perihypoglossal nuclei. Serial semi-thin (0.5 micron) sections through the perihypoglossal nuclei were incubated with antisera raised against the mentioned am...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Yingcharoen K,Rinvik E,Storm-Mathisen J,Ottersen OP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the peak and decline model divergent thinking declines at a specific age (in or after middle age). However, if divergent thinking declines steadily in aging still has to be clarified. In order to explore the age-related changes in verbal and visual divergent thinking, in the present study a sample of 159 ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Palmiero M,Nori R,Piccardi L

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00