Impact of neural noise on a sensory-motor pathway signaling impending collision.

abstract：:1. Single-unit activity was recorded from 215 neurons in the medial bulbar reticular formation during the masticatory sequence, from intake to deglutition, of 3 kinds of food (cat food pellets, canned fish, and milk) in 8 chronically prepared, unanesthetized, spontaneously respiring cats with their head fixed to a ste...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hiraba K,Taira M,Sahara Y,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional maturation of cuneate neurons was studied using reproducible tactile stimulation procedures and quantitative assessment of coding capacities in anesthetized (N2O/O2 plus barbiturate infusion) or decerebrate cats from six different age groups; neonatal (1-5 days), 10-15, 25-30, 55-63, and 83-90 days, and...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Connor KM,Ferrington DG,Rowe MJ

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a novel phenomenon produced by focused ultrasound (US) that may be important for understanding its effects on cell membranes. When a US burst (2.1 MHz, 1-mm focal diameter, 0.1-1 MPa) was focused on a motor axon of the crayfish neuromuscular junction, it consistently produced a fast hyperpolarization, which ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lin JW,Yu F,Müller WS,Ehnholm G,Okada Y

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To localize objects relative to ourselves, we need to combine various sensory and motor signals. When these signals change abruptly, as information about eye orientation does during saccades, small differences in latency between the signals could introduce localization errors. We examine whether independent temporal i...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Maij F,Brenner E,Smeets JB

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although understanding the processing of natural sounds is an important goal in auditory neuroscience, relatively little is known about the neural coding of these sounds. Recently we demonstrated that the spectral temporal receptive field (STRF), a description of the stimulus-response function of auditory neurons, cou...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sen K,Theunissen FE,Doupe AJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human languages can express opposite propositions by means of the negative operator "not," which turns affirmative sentences into negative ones. Psycholinguistic research has indicated that negative meanings are formed by transiently reducing the access to mental representations of negated conceptual information. Neur...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bartoli E,Tettamanti A,Farronato P,Caporizzo A,Moro A,Gatti R,Perani D,Tettamanti M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-unit activity of the motor cortex (area 4gamma) was studied in cats performing reaching with the contra- versus ipsilateral forelimb. Reaching was initiated by a tone burst (Go cue), different limbs were used in separate blocks of trials. During reaching performed with the contralateral limb, three types of neu...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Perfiliev S

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Several heart interneurons (HN cells) of the leech nerve cord have impulse-initiation sites in every segmental ganglion through which their single axons pass. All these initiation sites are capable of producing rhythmic impulse bursts. However, under normal conditions a dominant primary initiation site in the gangl...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Calabrese RL

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. A characteristic plateau pattern was observed in the rate of afferent discharges during ramp-and-hold stretch of spindles isolated from semitendinosus muscles of frogs. The plateau pattern was more frequent in summer frogs (84%) than winter frogs (11%). 2. The plateau pattern consisted of a discharge rate around 12...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sokabe M,Nunogaki K,Naruse K,Soga H,Fujitsuka N,Yoshimura A,Ito F

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seminal work in animals indicates that learning a motor task results in long-term potentiation (LTP) in primary motor cortex (M1) and a subsequent occlusion of LTP induction (Rioult-Pedotti et al. J Neurophysiol 98: 3688-3695, 2007). Using various forms of noninvasive brain stimulation in conjunction with a motor lear...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hinder MR,Reissig P,Fujiyama H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured synaptic responses to complex stimulus trains in the calyx of Held and used the data to test how well several vesicle-release models could capture the observed dynamics. We tested stimulation protocols consisting of Poisson-distributed activity with periodically changing mean frequencies, trains with const...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hermann J,Grothe B,Klug A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Two hundred and twenty-one spinothalamic tract (STT) neurons in the lumbar spinal cord of anesthetized monkeys were studied. The majority of the recordings were in laminae IV-VI. Thirteen of these neurons were intracellularly injected with horseradish peroxidase and histologically reconstructed. 2. A standard serie...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Surmeier DJ,Honda CN,Willis WD Jr

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various forms of synaptic plasticity, including spike timing-dependent plasticity, can be accounted for by calcium-dependent models of synaptic plasticity. However, recent results in which synaptic plasticity is induced by multi-spike protocols cannot simply be accounted for by linear superposition of plasticity due t...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cai Y,Gavornik JP,Cooper LN,Yeung LC,Shouval HZ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medial-olivocochlear (MOC) acoustic reflex is thought to provide frequency-specific feedback that adjusts the gain of cochlear amplification, but little is known about how frequency specific the reflex actually is. We measured human MOC tuning through changes in stimulus frequency otoacoustic emissions (SFOAEs) fr...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lilaonitkul W,Guinan JJ Jr

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinothalamic (ST) neurons in the C8-T5 segments of the spinal cord were examined for responses to electrical stimulation of the left thoracic vagus nerve (LTV). Seventy-one ST neurons were studied in 39 anesthetized monkeys (Macaca fascicularis). Each neuron could be excited by manipulation of its somatic field and b...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ammons WS,Blair RW,Foreman RD

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Odor identification (OI) tests are increasingly used clinically as biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to directly compare the neuronal correlates to identified odors vs. nonidentified odors. Seventeen females with normal olfactory function underwent a functional magnetic re...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kjelvik G,Evensmoen HR,Brezova V,Håberg AK

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human auditory system has an exceptional ability to separate competing sounds, but the neural mechanisms that underlie this ability are not understood. Responses of inferior colliculus (IC) neurons to "mistuned" complex tones were measured to investigate possible neural mechanisms for spectral segregation. A mistu...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sinex DG,Li H,Velenovsky DS

更新日期：2005-11-01 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 group I metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) subtype, mGluR1, is highly expressed on the apical dendrites of olfactory bulb mitral cells and thus may be activated by glutamate released from olfactory nerve (ON) terminals. Previous studies have shown that mGluR1 agonists directly excite mitral cells. In the pres...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ennis M,Zhu M,Heinbockel T,Hayar A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local computation in microcircuits is an essential feature of distributed information processing in vertebrate and invertebrate brains. The insect antennal lobe represents a spatially confined local network that processes high-dimensional and redundant peripheral input to compute an efficient odor code. Social insects...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Meyer A,Galizia CG,Nawrot MP

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The excitatory and inhibitory conductances driving the light-evoked currents (LECs) of cat and ferret ON- and OFF-center X ganglion cells were examined in sliced and isolated retina preparations using center spot stimulation in tetrodotoxin (TTX)-containing Ringer. ON-center X ganglion cells showed an increase in an e...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cohen ED

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular pH of living tissue in the retina and elsewhere in the brain is lower than the pH of the surrounding milieu. We have shown that the pH gradient between the in vitro retina and the superfusion solution is regulated by a circadian (24-h) clock so that it is smaller in the subjective day than in the sub...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Dmitriev AV,Mangel SC

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have revealed a new form of activity-dependent modulation of the afterhyperpolarization (AHP) in tactile (T) neurons of the leech Hirudo medicinalis. The firing of T cells is characterized by an AHP, which is mainly due to the activity of the Na+/K+ ATPase. Low-frequency repetitive stimulation of T ne...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Scuri R,Mozzachiodi R,Brunelli M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-motion generates patterns of optic flow on the retina. Neurons in the dorsal part of the medial superior temporal area (MSTd) are selective for these optic flow patterns. It has been shown that neurons in this area that are selective for expanding optic flow fields are involved in heading judgments. We wondered h...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Xu H,Wallisch P,Bradley DC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Excitatory synaptic transmission in mono- and polysynaptic pathways between dorsal root afferents and alpha-motoneurons was studied in the spinal cord preparation of the neonatal rat isolated in vitro, using sharp-electrode intracellular recordings. 2. The duration of monosynaptic excitatory postsynaptic potentials...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Pinco M,Lev-Tov A

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single midbrain neurons were examined for effects of ovarian hormone administration on responsiveness to an array of lordosis-controlling types of somatosensory stimuli in anesthetized, ovariectomized Syrian hamsters. Neuronal responses were recorded under four different hormonal treatment conditions: 1) estradiol ben...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Rose JD,Bieber SL

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal Müller cells are highly permeable to potassium as a consequence of their intrinsic membrane properties. Therefore these cells are able to play an important role in maintaining potassium homeostasis in the vertebrate retina during light-induced neuronal activity. Polyamines and other factors present in Müller c...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Solessio E,Rapp K,Perlman I,Lasater EM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thalamic reticular nucleus (nRt) provides a major source of inhibition in the thalamo-cortical circuit and is critically involved in the generation of spindle oscillations. Here we describe the properties of thalamic giant depolarizing potentials (tGDPs) that were observed in nRt during early development. tGDPs pe...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Pangratz-Fuehrer S,Rudolph U,Huguenard JR

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Although it is generally agreed that Ca2+ couples depolarization to the release of neurotransmitters, hypertonic saline and ethanol (ETOH) evoke neurosecretion independent of extracellular Ca2+. One possible explanation is that these agents release Ca2+ from an intracellular store that then stimulates Ca(2+)-depend...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brosius DC,Hackett JT,Tuttle JB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coupled oscillatory activity recorded between sensorimotor regions of the basal ganglia-thalamocortical loop is thought to reflect information transfer relevant to movement. A neuronal firing-rate model of basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuitry, however, has dominated thinking about basal ganglia function for the pas...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lipski WJ,Wozny TA,Alhourani A,Kondylis ED,Turner RS,Crammond DJ,Richardson RM

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00