Eye movements when observing predictable and unpredictable actions.

abstract：:Mechanisms of direction selectivity and speed selectivity were studied in single neurons of the middle temporal visual area (MT) of behaving macaque monkeys. Visual stimuli were presented in both smooth and stroboscopic motion within a neuron's receptive field as the monkey fixated a stationary point of light. Directi...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Mikami A,Newsome WT,Wurtz RH

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial and temporal properties of LGN receptive fields were studied by flashing a small bar of light across the field in 28 discrete steps. The flashes at each of the spatial positions were used to produce 28 PST histograms. These histograms were in turn displayed as a plane, with space on the chi axis, time on the p...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Stevens JK,Gerstein GL

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. It is widely believed that signals contributing to the receptive field surrounds of retinal bipolar cells pass from horizontal cells to bipolar cells via GABAergic synapses. To test this notion, we applied gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) agonists and antagonists to isolated, perfused retinas of the salamander Ambyst...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hare WA,Owen WG

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gain modulation is a ubiquitous phenomenon in cortical neurons, providing flexibility to operate under changing conditions. The prevailing view is that this modulation reflects a change in the relationship between mean input and output firing rate brought about by variation in neuronal membrane characteristics. An alt...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Azouz R

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous behavioral work has shown the existence of both anticipatory and reactive grip force responses to predictable load perturbations, but how the brain implements anticipatory control remains unclear. Here we recorded electroencephalographs while participants were subjected to predictable and unpredictable extern...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kourtis D,Kwok HF,Roach N,Wing AM,Praamstra P

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The inhibitory response of exogenously applied glycine was investigated in freshly dissociated rat nucleus tractus solitarii neurons under whole cell configuration using new perforated patch-clamp technique termed "gramicidin perforated patch technique," which maintains intact intracellular Cl- concentrations. 2. U...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Rhee JS,Ebihara S,Akaike N

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synapsin is a synaptic vesicle-associated protein implicated in the regulation of vesicle trafficking and transmitter release, but its role in heterosynaptic plasticity remains elusive. Moreover, contradictory results have obscured the contribution of synapsin to homosynaptic plasticity. We previously reported that th...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Fioravante D,Liu RY,Netek AK,Cleary LJ,Byrne JH

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spike timing reliability of Aplysia motoneurons stimulated by repeated presentation of periodic or aperiodic input currents is investigated. Two properties of the input are varied, the frequency content and the relative amplitude of the fluctuations to the mean (expressed as the coefficient of variation: CV). It i...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hunter JD,Milton JG,Thomas PJ,Cowan JD

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamines are strong modulators and/or activators of spinal locomotor networks. Thus monoaminergic fibers likely contact neurons involved in generating locomotion. The aim of the present study was to investigate the serotonergic innervation of locomotor-activated neurons within the thoraco-lumbar spinal cord followin...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Noga BR,Johnson DM,Riesgo MI,Pinzon A

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Action potential firing rates are generally limited by the refractory period, which depends on the recovery from inactivation of voltage-gated Na channels. In cerebellar Purkinje neurons, the kinetics of Na channels appear specialized for rapid firing. Upon depolarization, an endogenous open-channel blocker rapidly te...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Afshari FS,Ptak K,Khaliq ZM,Grieco TM,Slater NT,McCrimmon DR,Raman IM

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperreflexia and spasticity are chronic complications in spinal cord injury (SCI), with limited options for safe and effective treatment. A central mechanism in spasticity is hyperexcitability of the spinal stretch reflex, which presents symptomatically as a velocity-dependent increase in tonic stretch reflexes and e...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bandaru SP,Liu S,Waxman SG,Tan AM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous models of the oculomotor neuronal integrator located in the prepositus hypoglossi nucleus (PHN) involve both highly tuned recurrent networks and intrinsic neuronal properties; however, there is little experimental evidence for the relative role of these two mechanisms. The experiments reported here show that ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Idoux E,Serafin M,Fort P,Vidal PP,Beraneck M,Vibert N,Mühlethaler M,Moore LE

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interjoint reflex function of the insect leg contributes to postural control at rest or to movement control during locomotor movements. In the stick insect (Carausius morosus), we investigated the role that sensory signals from the femoral chordotonal organ (fCO), the transducer of the femur-tibia (FT) joint, play in ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hess D,Büschges A

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct electrical coupling between neurons can be the result of both electrotonic current transfer through gap junctions and extracellular fields. Intracellular recordings from CA1 pyramidal neurons of rat hippocampal slices showed two different types of small-amplitude coupling potentials: short-duration (5 ms) bipha...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Vigmond EJ,Perez Velazquez JL,Valiante TA,Bardakjian BL,Carlen PL

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective connectivity between cortical areas decreases during slow wave sleep. This decline can be observed in the reduced interareal propagation of activity evoked either directly in cortex by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) or by sensory stimulation. We present here a large-scale model of the thalamocortica...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Esser SK,Hill S,Tononi G

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging blood-oxygenation-level-dependent (BOLD) signal increases (activations) and BOLD signal decreases ("deactivations") were compared in six healthy volunteers during galvanic vestibular (mastoid) and galvanic cutaneous (neck) stimulation in order to differentiate vestibular from ocul...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bense S,Stephan T,Yousry TA,Brandt T,Dieterich M

更新日期：2001-02-01 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 gain of the vertical vestibuloocular reflex (VVOR), defined as eye velocity/head velocity was adapted in squirrel monkeys by employing visual-vestibular mismatch stimuli. VVOR gain, measured in the dark, could be trained to values between 0.4 and 1.5. Single-unit activity of vertical zone Purkinje cells was record...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hirata Y,Highstein SM

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory for past events may be based on retrieval accompanied by specific contextual details (recollection) or on the feeling that an item is old (familiarity) or new (novelty) in the absence of contextual details. There are indications that recollection, familiarity, and novelty involve different medial temporal lobe ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Daselaar SM,Fleck MS,Cabeza R

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a physiologically realistic mathematical model of the Golgi tendon organ (GTO) whose elements correspond to anatomical features of the biological receptor. The mechanical interactions of these elements enable it to capture all salient aspects of GTO afferent behavior reported in the literature. The model ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Mileusnic MP,Loeb GE

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An orthodromically evoked late hyperpolarizing potential (LHP) was studied using intracellular recording techniques in rat hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells in vitro. Several tests indicated that the LHP is not blocked by GABA antagonists, but rather comprises the initial portion of the stimulation-induced burst afterhy...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Alger BE

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Many examples of long-term potentiation (LPT) are induced by repetitive electrical stimulation of presynaptic axons. LTP also is induced by direct glutamate iontophoresis (1 M, 1-2 microA, 10 s) onto postsynaptic neurons in hippocampal slices without evoked presynaptic stimulation; this form of LTP is called "ionto...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cormier RJ,Kelly PT

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex patterns of intercellular calcium signaling occur in the CA1 and CA2 regions of hippocampal slice organotypic cultures from neonatal mice. Spontaneous localized intercellular Ca2+ waves involving 5-15 cells propagate concentrically from multiple foci in the stratum oriens and s. radiatum. In these same regions...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Harris-White ME,Zanotti SA,Frautschy SA,Charles AC

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Electron microscope studies using ruthenium red, horseradish peroxidase, and colloidal lanthanum disclosed a feature characteristic of the snake spindle capsule: it consists of a single layer of flattened cells connected in series, each of which forms a cylinder enclosing the intrafusal fiber. 2. In intact spindles...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Fukami Y

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus accumbens (NAcc) is a brain region involved in functions ranging from motivation and reward to feeding and drug addiction. The NAcc is typically divided into two major subdivisions, the shell and the core. The primary output neurons of both of these areas are medium spiny neurons (MSNs), which are quiescen...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brundege JM,Williams JT

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are three common ways by which to successfully terminate gait: decreased acceleration of whole-body center of mass (COM) through a flexor synergy in the trail leg, increased deceleration of whole-body COM through an extensor synergy in the front limb, and an energy/momentum transfer to dissipate any remaining mo...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Oates AR,Patla AE,Frank JS,Greig MA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The present study was designed to determine the effects of microstimulation of the medullary reticular formation (MRF) on the locomotor activity of the cat in the absence of phasic afferent feedback from the limbs. To this end, both short (33 ms) and long (200 ms) trains of stimuli (trains of 0.2-ms pulses at 330 H...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Perreault MC,Rossignol S,Drew T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vestibuloocular reflex (VOR) needs to modulate its gain depending on target distance to prevent retinal slip during head movements. We investigated gain modulation (context compensation) for binocular gaze stabilization in human subjects during voluntary yaw and pitch head rotations. Movements of each eye were rec...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Medendorp WP,Van Gisbergen JA,Van Pelt S,Gielen CC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine (DA) neurons and GABA neurons of the substantia nigra (SN) promote distinct functions in the control of movement and have different firing properties and action potential (AP) waveforms. APs recorded from DA and GABA neurons differed in amplitude, maximal rate of rise, and duration. In addition, the threshold...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Seutin V,Engel D

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EEG generator-a model of potentials in a volume conductor. The potential recorded over the cortex electro-corticogram (ECoG) or over the scalp [electroencephalograph (EEG)] derives from the activity of many sources known as "EEG generators." The recorded amplitude is basically a function of the unitary potential of a ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Avitan L,Teicher M,Abeles M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00