Response properties from turtle auditory hair cell afferent fibers suggest spike generation is driven by synchronized release both between and within synapses.

abstract：:The location of the human nociceptive area(s) near the Sylvian fissure is still controversial in spite of evidence from imaging and evoked potential studies that noxious heat stimuli activate somatosensory areas in that region. Some studies have suggested the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) on the upper bank of t...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Vogel H,Port JD,Lenz FA,Solaiyappan M,Krauss G,Treede RD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The excitotoxic theory of Parkinson's disease (PD) hypothesizes that a pathophysiological degeneration of dopaminergic neurons stems from neural hyperactivity at early stages of disease, leading to mitochondrial stress and cell death. Recent research has harnessed the visual system of Drosophila PD models to probe thi...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Himmelberg MM,West RJH,Elliott CJH,Wade AR

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results from previous studies suggest that two-dimensional spatial patterns are processed similarly in vision and touch when the patterns are equated for effective size or when visual stimuli are blurred to mimic the spatial filtering of the skin. In the present study, we measured subjects' ability to perceive the sha...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cho Y,Craig JC,Hsiao SS,Bensmaia SJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between impedance change and the location and magnitude of a tonic synaptic conductance was examined in compartmental motoneuron models based on previously published data. The dependency of motoneuron impedance on system time constant (tau), electrotonic length (L), and dendritic-to-somatic conductance ra...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Maltenfort MG,Phillips CA,McCurdy ML,Hamm TM

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The discharges from individual Golgi tendon organs of peroneus tertius and brevis muscles were recorded in anesthetized cats. Responses to unfused isometric contractions of single motor units and combinations of motor units were compared with responses to contractions eliciting muscle shortening (i.e., shortening c...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Horcholle-Bossavit G,Jami L,Petit J,Vejsada R,Zytnicki D

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The same set of stimuli and analytic methods that was used to study the dynamics of horizontal cells () was applied to a study of the response dynamics and signal processing in amacrine cells in the retina of the kissing gourami, Helostoma rudolfi. The retina contains two major classes of amacrine cells that could be ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sakai HM,Machuca H,Naka KI

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine changes in motor unit activity in the biceps brachii muscle after an initial (Bout 1) and repeated (Bout 2) session of eccentric exercise separated by 1 wk. Eight subjects (aged 22 ± 2 yr) participated in experimental assessments of neuromuscular function obtained before, immed...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Dartnall TJ,Nordstrom MA,Semmler JG

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reward and punishment have opposite affective value but are both processed by the cingulate cortex. However, it is unclear whether the positive and negative affective values of monetary reward and punishment are processed by separate or common subregions of the cingulate cortex. We performed a functional magnetic reso...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Fujiwara J,Tobler PN,Taira M,Iijima T,Tsutsui K

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine when the muscles and joints of the forelimb become represented in primary motor cortex (M1) during postnatal life and how local representation patterns change. We examined these questions in cats that were anesthetized (45-90 days, n = 14; adults, n = 3) and awake (n = 4; 52-86...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Chakrabarty S,Martin JH

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liolaemus lizards were explored to ascertain whether they would make an amenable model to study single-cell electrophysiology of neurons in the vomeronasal organ (VNO). Despite a rich array of chemosensory-related behaviors chronicled for this genus, no anatomical or functional data exist for the VNO, the organ mediat...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Labra A,Brann JH,Fadool DA

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal ganglia circuits are organized as parallel loops that have been proposed to compete in a winner-take-all fashion to determine the appropriate behavioral outcome. However, limited experimental support for strong lateral inhibition mechanisms within striatal regions questions this model. Here, stimulation of the p...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gruber AJ,Powell EM,O'Donnell P

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swimming behavior in the marine mollusc Tritonia diomedea is episodic, consisting of a series of alternating dorsal and ventral flexions initiated by a brief sensory stimulus. The swim motor pattern is generated by a network formed of four groups of premotor interneurons: cerebral cell 2 (C2), dorsal swim interneurons...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Getting PA,Dekin MS

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation of movement may be driven by the difference between planned and actual motor performance, or the difference between expected and actual sensory consequences of movement. To identify how the nervous system differentially uses these signals, we asked: does motor adaptation occur when movement errors are irrel...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Schaefer SY,Shelly IL,Thoroughman KA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabotropic receptors modulate numerous cellular processes by intracellular Ca2+ signaling, but less is known about their role in regulating mitochondrial metabolic function within the CNS. In this study, we demonstrate in area CA3 of rat organotypic hippocampal slice cultures that glutamatergic, serotonergic, and mu...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kann O,Kovács R,Heinemann U

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whenever the eyes move, spatial attention must keep track of the locations of targets as they shift on the retina. This study investigated transsaccadic updating of visual attention to cued targets. While observers prepared a saccade, we flashed an irrelevant, but salient, color cue in their visual periphery and measu...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Jonikaitis D,Szinte M,Rolfs M,Cavanagh P

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. One hundred seventy-nine single units were studied in the superior colliculus of seven Dutch-belted rabbits following ablation of the ipsilateral visual cortex. The response characteristics of these units were compared with those of 284 single units recorded from the superior colliculus of 20 intact animals. 2. In ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Graham J,Berman N,Murphy EH

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. During alertness, lemniscal thalamocortical neurons in the ventral medial geniculate body (MGBv) encode sound signals by firing action potentials in a tonic mode. When they are in a burst firing mode, characteristic of thalamic neurons during some sleep states, the same stimuli may have an alerting function, leadin...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Tennigkeit F,Schwarz DW,Puil E

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Movement of the crayfish thoracocoxal leg joint is monitored by a muscle receptor organ (TCMRO) and a chordotonal organ (TCCO). Both receptors span the joint in parallel but signal opposite directions of leg movement. The TCMRO is innervated by afferents responsive to lengthening, which corresponds to leg remotion,...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Skorupski P,Rawat BM,Bush BM

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) have been linked to schizophrenia because agents that bind the receptor, like ketamine and phencyclidine, are capable of inducing schizophrenia-like symptoms. Here we show that the amino acid homocysteine (HCY), which is increased in the blood of schizophrenia patients, reduces ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bolton AD,Phillips MA,Constantine-Paton M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which an attention-demanding visuomotor task affects the strength of the inhibitory control exerted by the wrist flexor group Ia afferents on the wrist extensor motoneurons. Effects of median nerve stimulation on the tonic activity of wrist extensor single motor uni...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Nafati G,Schmied A,Rossi-Durand C

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of the superior colliculus (SC) in saccade target selection in rhesus monkeys who were trained to perform a direction-discrimination task. In this task, the monkey discriminated between opposed directions of visual motion and indicated its judgment by making a saccadic eye movement to one of t...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Horwitz GD,Newsome WT

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intense itch and urge to scratch are the major symptoms of many chronic skin ailments, which are increasingly common. Vicious itch-scratch cycles are readily established and may diminish quality of life for those afflicted. We investigated peripheral and central processing of two types of itch sensation elicited by sk...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Leknes SG,Bantick S,Willis CM,Wilkinson JD,Wise RG,Tracey I

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of inhibitory postsynaptic potential (IPSP) barrages on coding of sinusoidal length inputs were investigated in slowly and rapidly adapting stretch receptors of crayfish (RM1 and RM2, respectively). To examine the contribution of postsynaptic firings, a description was obtained of the temporal correlati...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Barrio LC,Buño W

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Top-down selective attention to the affective properties of taste stimuli increases activation to the taste stimuli in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and pregenual cingulate cortex (PGC), and selective attention to the intensity of the stimuli increases the activation in the insular taste cortex, but the origin of the...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Grabenhorst F,Rolls ET

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of myoelectric prostheses and brain-machine interfaces requires learning abstract neuromotor transformations. To investigate the mechanisms underlying this ability, we trained subjects to move a two-dimensional cursor using a myoelectric-controlled interface. With the upper limb immobilized, an electromyogram ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Radhakrishnan SM,Baker SN,Jackson A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although previous research with human and nonhuman primates has examined the neural correlates of performance monitoring, discrepancies in methodology have limited our ability to make cross-species generalizations. One major obstacle arises from the use of different behavioral responses and tasks across different prim...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Reinhart RM,Carlisle NB,Kang MS,Woodman GF

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), the most common inherited form of intellectual disability, is caused by loss of the fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). FMRP is a negative regulator of local mRNA translation downstream of group 1 metabotropic glutamate receptor (Gp1 mGluR) activation. In the absence of FMRP there is...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Auerbach BD,Bear MF

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used positron emission tomography to study motor learning by trial and error. Subjects learned sequences of eight finger movements. Tones generated by a computer told the subjects whether any particular move was correct or incorrect. A control condition was used in which the subjects generated moves, but there was ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Jueptner M,Frith CD,Brooks DJ,Frackowiak RS,Passingham RE

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The influence of prior metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) activation on subsequent long-term potentiation (LTP) induction was investigated with the use of the mGluR agonist 1-amino-cyclopentane-1S,3R-dicarboxylic acid (ACPD, 20 microM). Field potential recordings were made in the stratum radiatum of CA1 slices...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cohen AS,Abraham WC

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is mounting evidence for the idea that performance in a visuomotor rotation task can be supported by both implicit and explicit forms of learning. The implicit component of learning has been well characterized in previous experiments and is thought to arise from the adaptation of an internal model driven by sens...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bond KM,Taylor JA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00