The motor system plays the violin: a musical metaphor inferred from the oscillatory activity of the α-motoneuron pools during locomotion.

abstract：:Recognition of sound patterns must be largely independent of level and of masking or jamming background sounds. Auditory patterns of relevance in numerous environmental sounds, species-specific vocalizations and speech are frequency modulations (FM). Level-dependent activation of the human auditory cortex (AC) in resp...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brechmann A,Baumgart F,Scheich H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of peripheral lesions on cerebral somatosensory representations is well studied for experimentally induced amputations and deafferentations acquired later in life. However, few studies have investigated the brain's capacity for plastic changes in congenital malformations. We studied somatosensory-evoked fie...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Stoeckel MC,Pollok B,Witte OW,Seitz RJ,Schnitzler A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain further insight into the neural mechanisms for different forms of quadrupedal walking, data on postural orientation, hindlimb kinematics, and motor patterns were assessed for four grades of downslope walking, from 25% (14 degrees slope) to 100% (45 degrees), and compared with data from level and downslope walk...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Smith JL,Carlson-Kuhta P,Trank TV

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In the intact pond snail Planorbis corneus, a rapid tilt in any plane evoked a defense reaction consisting of a fast movement of the shell towards the head, shortening of the foot, inhibition of locomotion and of rhythmical feeding movements. This reaction was similar to the first phase of the general defense react...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Arshavsky YI,Deliagina TG,Okshtein IL,Orlovsky GN,Panchin YV,Popova LB

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. This paper reports the results of an investigation of the basic mechanisms underlying intersegmental coordination in lamprey locomotion, by the use of a combined mathematical and biological approach. 2. Mathematically, the lamprey central pattern generator (CPG) is described as a chain of coupled nonlinear oscillat...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Williams TL,Sigvardt KA,Kopell N,Ermentrout GB,Remler MP

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate how maximal intermittent contractions for a hand muscle influence cortical and reflex activity, as well as the ability to voluntarily activate, the homologous muscle in the opposite limb. Twelve healthy subjects (age: 24 ± 3 years, all right hand dominant) performed maximal con...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kavanagh JJ,Feldman MR,Simmonds MJ

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Whole cell patch-clamp techniques, combined with direct visualization of neurons, were used to study voltage-dependent potassium currents in layer 1 neurons and layer II/III pyramidal cells. 2. In the presence of tetrodotoxin, step depolarizations evoked an outward current. This current had a complex waveform and a...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Zhou FM,Hablitz JJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In quadrupeds, the dorsal-side-up body orientation during standing is maintained due to a postural system that is driven by feedback signals coming mainly from limb mechanoreceptors. In caudally decerebrated (postmammillary) rabbits, the efficacy of this system is considerably reduced. In this paper, we report that th...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Zelenin PV,Hsu LJ,Orlovsky GN,Deliagina TG

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macaque SEF neurons encode object-centered directions of eye movements regardless of the visual attributes of instructional cues. Neurons in the supplementary eye field (SEF) of the macaque monkey exhibit object-centered direction selectivity in the context of a task in which a spot flashed on the right or left end of...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Olson CR,Gettner SN

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic plasticity in the amygdala is thought to underlie aversive or rewarding learning and emotional memories. In this study, different mechanisms were found to underlie synaptic plasticity in lateral (LA) and basolateral (BLA) amygdala pathways to the primary output nucleus of the amygdala, the central amygdala (C...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Fu Y,Shinnick-Gallagher P

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief movements of a large-field visual stimulus elicit short-latency tracking eye movements termed "ocular following responses" (OFRs). To address the question of whether OFRs can be elicited by purely binocular motion signals in the absence of monocular motion cues, we measured OFRs from monkeys using dichoptic moti...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hayashi R,Miura K,Tabata H,Kawano K

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal neurons undergo large cyclic membrane potential oscillations during fictive locomotion in lamprey. It was investigated whether these oscillations were due only to synaptically driven excitatory and inhibitory potentials or if voltage-dependent inward conductances also contribute to the depolarizing phase by usi...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hu GY,Biró Z,Hill RH,Grillner S

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were 1) to probe the effects of visual motion adaptation on early visual and V5/MT cortical excitability and 2) to investigate whether changes in cortical excitability following visual motion adaptation are related to the degree of visual dependency, i.e., an overreliance on visual cues co...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lubeck AJ,Van Ombergen A,Ahmad H,Bos JE,Wuyts FL,Bronstein AM,Arshad Q

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Effects of inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3) applied through a patch pipette to Xenopus laevis olfactory receptor cells (ORCs) were studied using the patch-clamp technique in conjunction with calcium imaging with fura-2. 2. InsP3 activated, first, a novel voltage-independent Ca2+ current (ICa) and, second, a non...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Schild D,Lischka FW,Restrepo D

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uppermost layer (stratum griseum superficiale, SGS) of the superior colliculus (SC) provides an important gateway from the retina to the visual extrastriate and visuomotor systems. The majority of attention has been given to the role of this "visual" SC in saccade generation and target selection and it is generall...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Girman SV,Lund RD

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The small cardioactive peptides (SCPs) are potent modulatory neuropeptides in Aplysia. Buccal ganglia neurons B1 and B2 are the largest neurons that exhibit SCP-like immunoreactivity. High-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC)-bioassay and in vivo radiolabeling procedures confirm that these neurons contain and synt...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lloyd PE,Kupfermann I,Weiss KR

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamatergic inputs clustered over approximately 20-40 microm can elicit local N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) spike/plateau potentials in terminal dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons, inspiring the notion that a single terminal dendrite can function as a decision-making computational subunit. A typical terminal basa...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Major G,Polsky A,Denk W,Schiller J,Tank DW

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic transmission at the inner hair cell (IHC) afferent synapse, the first synapse in the auditory pathway, is specialized for rapid and reliable signaling. Here we investigated the properties of a hyperpolarization-activated current (I(h)), expressed in the afferent dendrite of auditory nerve fibers, and its role...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Yi E,Roux I,Glowatzki E

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When they are 1-2 mo old, domesticated Mongolian gerbils begin having initially mild seizures which become more severe with age. To evaluate the development of this increasing seizure severity, we obtained field potential responses of the dentate gyrus to paired-pulse stimulation of the perforant path during seizures....

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Buckmaster PS,Wong EH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motoneurons receive synaptic inputs from tens of thousands of connections that cause membrane potential to fluctuate continuously (synaptic noise), which introduces variability in discharge times of action potentials. We hypothesized that the influence of synaptic noise on force steadiness during voluntary contraction...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Dideriksen JL,Negro F,Enoka RM,Farina D

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the crayfish abdominal postural motoneurons and their associated neurons (the accessory neuron(s) and the MRO(1)) were examined with the aid of techniques for the analysis of simultaneously recorded spike trains. A means of reliably identifying the spikes of the individual motoneurons based on their re...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sokolove PG,Tatton WG

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Are behaviors that rely on common muscles and motoneurons generated by separate or overlapping groups of pattern-generating neurons? This question was investigated for the three forms of scratching in immobilized, spinal turtles. Individual neurons were recorded extracellularly from the gray matter through most of the...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Berkowitz A

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary afferent fibers from the electroreceptors of mormyrid electric fish use a latency code to signal the intensity of electrical current evoked by the fish's own electric organ discharge (EOD). The afferent fibers terminate centrally in the deep and superficial granular layers of the electrosensory lobe with morph...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Zhang J,Han VZ,Meek J,Bell CC

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recorded local field potentials (LFPs) and single-unit activity simultaneously in the macaque primary visual cortex (V1) and studied their responses to drifting sinusoidal gratings that were chosen to be "optimal" for the single units. Over all stimulus conditions, the LFP spectra have much greater power in the low...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Henrie JA,Shapley R

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. To characterize the temporal dynamic responses of ganglion cells and to define the possible inputs giving rise to their responses in catfish retina, we recorded the ganglion cell responses evoked by 1) a step of light presented in the dark, 2) an incremental and decremental step from a background illumination, and ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sakai HM,Naka K

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our goal was to understand how patterns of excitation and inhibition, interacting across arrays of ganglion cells in space and time, generate the spiking output pattern for each ganglion cell type. We presented the retina with a 1-s flashed square, 600 microm on a side, and measured patterns of excitation and inhibiti...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Roska B,Molnar A,Werblin FS

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation to novel dynamics requires learning a motor memory, or a new pattern of predictive feedforward motor commands. Recently, we demonstrated the upregulation of rapid visuomotor feedback gains early in curl force field learning, which decrease once a predictive motor memory is learned. However, even after learn...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Franklin S,Wolpert DM,Franklin DW

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The pteropod mollusk Clione limacina swims by rhythmical oscillations of two wings, and its spatial orientation during locomotion is determined by tail movements. The majority of neurons responsible for generation of the wing and tail movements are located in the pedal ganglia. On the other hand, the majority of se...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Panchin YV,Popova LB,Deliagina TG,Orlovsky GN,Arshavsky YI

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated whether neurons in superficial laminae of the spinal dorsal horn respond to intracutaneous (ic) delivery of histamine and other irritant chemicals, and thus might be involved in signaling sensations of itch or chemogenic pain. Single-unit recordings were made from superficial lumbar dorsal horn ne...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Jinks SL,Carstens E

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weight predictions used to scale lifting forces adapt quickly when repeatedly lifting unusually weighted objects and are readily updated by explicit information provided about weight. In contrast, weight predictions used when making perceptual judgments about weight are more resistant to change and are largely unaffec...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Trewartha KM,Flanagan JR

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00