Object category structure in response patterns of neuronal population in monkey inferior temporal cortex.

abstract：:We investigated if visual direction-selective neurons in the pretectal area (APT) of goldfish (Carassius auratus auratus) preferred visual stimuli resulting from rotations around axes corresponding to the best responsive axes of the semicircular canals [optic flow that is consistent to a maximal activation of the hori...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Masseck OA,Hoffmann KP

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Three parallel maps of the distribution of tuberous electroreceptor inputs are found in the medullary electrosensory lateral line lobe (ELL) of weakly electric fish. Pyramidal cells in each map are known to respond differentially to the frequency of amplitude modulations (AMs) of external electric fields in vivo. W...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Turner RW,Plant JR,Maler L

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory inputs from muscle, cutaneous, and joint afferents project to the spinal cord, where they are able to affect ongoing locomotor activity. Activation of sensory input can initiate or prolong bouts of locomotor activity depending on the identity of the sensory afferent activated and the timing of the activation w...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bui TV,Brownstone RM

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：:Ankle inversions have been studied extensively during standing conditions. However, inversion traumas occur during more dynamic conditions, like walking. Therefore in this study sudden ankle inversions were elicited in 12 healthy subjects who stepped on a trap door while walking on a treadmill. First, 10 control trial...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Nieuwenhuijzen PH,Duysens J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous application of painful radiant heat laser pulses evokes potentials (laser-evoked potentials) that can be recorded from scalp or intracranial electrodes. We have now tested the hypothesis that the response of thalamic neurons to a cutaneous laser stimulus occurs at latencies predicted by the conduction delay ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kobayashi K,Winberry J,Liu CC,Treede RD,Lenz FA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether visual discrimination in macaque frontal eye field (FEF) is contingent on saccade planning, unit activity was recorded in two monkeys during blocked go and no-go visual search trials. The eye movements made by monkeys after correct no-go trials, in addition to an attenuation of the visual response...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Thompson KG,Bichot NP,Schall JD

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual tracking of moving objects requires prediction to compensate for visual delays and minimize mismatches between eye and target position and velocity. In everyday life, objects often disappear behind an occluder, and prediction is required to align eye and target at reappearance. Earlier studies investigating eye...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Orban de Xivry JJ,Bennett SJ,Lefèvre P,Barnes GR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AMPA-type glutamate receptors are normally Ca(2+) impermeable due to the expression of the GluR2 receptor subunit. By using GluR2 null mice we were able to detect miniature synaptic Ca(2+) transients (MSCTs) associated with AMPA-type receptor-mediated miniature synaptic currents at single synapses in primary cortical ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Wang S,Jia Z,Roder J,Murphy TH

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. A variety of pharmacological tests indicate that the neuromuscular junction between the salivary burster neuron (SB) and the salivary duct muscle (SD) in the terrestrial mollusk Limax maximus is cholinergic. These include the effects of curare, atropine, and hexamethonium. 2. Exogenously applied choline can act bot...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Barry SR,Gelperin A

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that neurons R3-14 of the Aplysia abdominal ganglia specifically express a gene encoding a 108-amino acid neuropeptide precursor. This precursor is postranslationally processed by cleavage of a signal sequence and two internal dibasic residues resulting in three peptides. The peptide pr...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Campanelli JT,Scheller RH

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We investigated gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors using thin slice patch-clamp techniques in the swellings along axons of posterior pituitary nerve terminals. 2. Activation of the nerve terminal GABAA receptor induced a mean conductance change of 1.5 nS. Normalizing to area gave a mean conductance density of...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Zhang SJ,Jackson MB

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One feature of neuronal discharge proposed to play a role in coding temporal information is the relative refractory period that follows each action potential. In neurons innervating hair cells, there is an extended refractory period that can last

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Dawkins R,Sewell WF

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two identified locust neurons, the lobula giant movement detector (LGMD) and its postsynaptic partner, the descending contralateral movement detector (DCMD), constitute one motion-sensitive pathway in the visual system that responds preferentially to objects that approach on a direct collision course and are implicate...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： McMillan GA,Gray JR

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports have indicated that the premotor cortex (PM) uses visual information for either direct guidance of limb movements or indirect specification of action targets at a conceptual level. We explored how visual inputs signaling these two different categories of information are processed by PM neurons. Monkey...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Yamagata T,Nakayama Y,Tanji J,Hoshi E

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can produce a lasting polarity-specific modulation of cortical excitability in the brain, and it is increasingly used in experimental and clinical settings. Recent studies suggest that the after-effects of tDCS are related to molecular mechanisms of activity-dependent syn...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ranieri F,Podda MV,Riccardi E,Frisullo G,Dileone M,Profice P,Pilato F,Di Lazzaro V,Grassi C

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The stiffness during the initial portion of a ramp stretch was measured in cat peroneus longus muscle at rest and during maximal tetanic contractions produced by increasing numbers of motor units of the same type [slow (S), fast fatigue resistant (FR), or fast fatigable (FF)]. 2. This initial ramp stiffness was def...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Petit J,Filippi GM,Gioux M,Hunt CC,Laporte Y

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Across the rostrocaudal (RC) axis of the Xenopus tadpole optic tectum exists a developmental gradient. This gradient has served as a useful model to study many aspects of synapse and dendrite maturation. To compliment these studies, we characterized how the intrinsic excitability, the ease in which a neuron can fire a...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hamodi AS,Pratt KG

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The posterior nucleus of thalamus (PO) is a higher-order nucleus involved in sensorimotor processing, including nociception. An important characteristic of PO is its wide range of activity profiles that vary across states of arousal, thought to underlie differences in somatosensory perception subject to attention and ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Park A,Li Y,Masri R,Keller A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subfornical organ (SFO) neurons exhibit heterogeneity in current expression and spiking behavior, where the two major spiking phenotypes appear as tonic and burst firing. Insight into the mechanisms behind this heterogeneity is critical for understanding how the SFO, a sensory circumventricular organ, integrates and s...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Medlock L,Shute L,Fry M,Standage D,Ferguson AV

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Express saccades represent the fastest possible eye movements to visual targets with reaction times that approach minimum sensory-motor conduction delays. Previous work in monkeys has identified two specific neural signals in the superior colliculus (SC: a midbrain sensorimotor integration structure involved in gaze c...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Marino RA,Levy R,Munoz DP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaching movements are subject to noise associated with planning and execution, but precisely how these noise sources interact to determine patterns of endpoint variability in three-dimensional space is not well understood. For frontal plane movements, variability is largest along the depth axis (the axis along which ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Apker GA,Buneo CA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speech stimuli give rise to neural activity in the listener that can be observed as waveforms using magnetoencephalography. Although waveforms vary greatly from trial to trial due to activity unrelated to the stimulus, it has been demonstrated that spoken sentences can be discriminated based on theta-band (3-7 Hz) pha...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Howard MF,Poeppel D

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Itch is often triggered by warming the skin in patients with itchy dermatitis, but the underlying mechanism is largely unknown. We presently investigated if warming the skin enhances histamine- or serotonin (5-HT)-evoked itch behavior or responses of sensory dorsal root ganglion (DRG) cells, and if responses of superf...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Akiyama T,Nagamine M,Davoodi A,Ivanov M,Carstens MI,Carstens E

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since sensory systems operate with a finite quantity of processing resources, an animal would benefit from prioritizing processing of sensory stimuli within a time window that is expected to provide key information. This behavioral manifestation of such prioritization is known as attention. Here, we investigate attent...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lee CCY,Clifford CWG,Arabzadeh E

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When people match an unseen hand to a visual or proprioceptive target, they make both variable and systematic (bias) errors. Variance is a well-established factor in behavior, but the origin and implications of bias, and its connection to variance, are poorly understood. Eighty healthy adults matched their unseen righ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Liu Y,Sexton BM,Block HJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant-derived insecticides have introduced a new concept in insecticide research. In response to insect attacks, some plants can release volatile sulfur compounds such as dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) in the atmosphere, which are lethal for the generalist insects. We demonstrate that DMDS induced an uncommon complex n...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Dugravot S,Grolleau F,Macherel D,Rochetaing A,Hue B,Stankiewicz M,Huignard J,Lapied B

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We observed endocytosis in real time in stimulated frog motor nerve terminals by imaging the growth of large membrane infoldings labeled with a low concentration of FM dye. The spatial and temporal information made available by these experiments allowed us to image several new aspects of this synaptic vesicle recyclin...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gaffield MA,Romberg CF,Betz WJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-type calcium channels couple membrane depolarization in neurons to numerous processes including gene expression, synaptic efficacy, and cell survival. To establish the contribution of L-type calcium channels to various signaling cascades, investigators have relied on their unique pharmacological sensitivity to dihyd...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lipscombe D,Helton TD,Xu W

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Intrasomal recordings were made with microelectrodes from 153 warm (infrared) neurons in the trigeminal ganglia of 36 crotaline snakes, Trimeresurus flavoviridis. Background discharges were observed at room temperature. The 153 warm neurons were classified into two groups: 81 were sensitive to less than or equal to...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Terashima S,Liang YF

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00